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Anak
itu
akan
child
that
FUT
‘That child will help Ali’
mem-bantu
MEN-help
Ali
Ali.
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Anak
itu
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child
that
FUT
‘That child will help Ali’
mem-bantu
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Ali.
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Ali.
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Haudricourt, A.-G. 1965. Mutation consonantique en Mon-Khmer. Bulletin de la Société Linguistique de
Paris 60:160-72.