Example Sentences

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All social behavior and actions are conducted in the order of seniority or ranking; as the saying goes, chanmul to wi alay ka ita, there is order even to drinking cold water.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

There was the juvas a koorin adói and the mushis a koorin an’ there was a boro chingarée, some with kāli yākkas an’ some with sherros chinned so the ratt jālled alay ’pré the drum. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey

I latchered the raias mush adrée the kitchema; so we got mātto odöi, an’ were jallin’ kerri alay the drum when we dicked the raias wardo a-wellin’. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey

An’ sig as he latched it, some Rommany chals welled alay an’ dicked this here Rommany chal. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey