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*    n-ixuɛ̃ [ ˩ / ˩ \ ˩ ] “the Ɔxwahɛ of

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*    Ixuɛ̃”. It occurs also in a

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*    reduplicated form: nene [ ˥ ˦ ]

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*    which probably is more em-

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*    phatic, e.g. n-ɔʋ̃a [ ˥ (4-1) ] “the man

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*    (spoken of)”, nen-ɔʋ̃a [ ˥ ˦ (3-1) ] “that

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*    very man”. If a noun is re-

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*    peated with the ne placed be-

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*    tween the two repetitions, the

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*    meaning of the noun is aug-

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*    mented by the notion “big”, or

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*    “real, main, principal”, e.g.

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*    imazɛ y-ɔʋ̃a n-ɔʋ̃a-ɽe, amaw-

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*    uwɛ [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˩ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ˥ ˩ \ ˩ ] ( [ / ]) I do

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*    not mind a big (i.e. important)

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*    man, how much less you;

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*    inwina n-inwina‿inwina na

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*    [ ˩ ˩ ˩ \ ˩ ˩ ˥ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ] something like

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*    “this is a good job of work I

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*    did for him”. When preceding

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*    nouns expressing time like ɛdɛ

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*    [ ˩ ˥ ] “day”, ɛɣɛ [ ˩ ˩ ] “time”,

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*    ukpo [ ˩ ˥ ] “year”, it conveys

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*    the idea of “ago”, e.g. n-ɛdɛ

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*    [ \ ˥ ] or [ ˥ ˦ ] “in the old time”,

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*    “in the old days”, as in

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*    ɛkpo n-ɛdɛ ot-uwa na‿iherh-ũkpɔ̃

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*    [ ˥ ˥ ˦ ˧ ˩ ˥ / ˩ ˥ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] “in the old times

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*    your age-group did not yet wear

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*    cloth” (to a young boy); fur-

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*    ther: n-ukpo [ \ ˩ ] “last year”

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*    (cf. ukpo na [ ˩ ˥ ˩ ] or n-ukpo na

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*    “this year”), with the forms

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*    n-ɛkp-ia [ ˥ (4-1) ‿ / ] “two years ago”,

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*    lit. “three-years ago”, as the

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*    current year is included in

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*    the calculation, n-ɛkp-enɛ [ ˥ ˦ ˧ ]

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*    “three (lit. four) years ago”,

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*    n-ɛkp-isɛ̃ [ ˥ ˦ ˧ ] “four (lit. five)

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*    years ago”, etc.; v. n-ɛv- [ ˥ ],

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*    ɛɣɛ [ ˩ ˩ ], ɛdɛ [ ˩ ˥ ], nodɛ [ \ ˩ ].

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*    Finally, ne is often used in front

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*    of the ordinal numbers, e.g. in

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*    n-okao [ ˥ ˩ ] “the first”, n-ogieva

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*    [ ˥ ˩ ˩ ] “the second”, etc. which

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*    can also (without the exception

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