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INDONESIAN LINGUISTICS
bĕlas, "twelve", when spoken rapidly, is sounded dobĕlas. This dobĕlas is the allegro form, and likewise the exceptional one. In Achinese bah + le, " let be !", has become bale, but when people are speaking quite slowly the h reappears, bahle being therefore the lentissimo form.
341. On the differentiation into lento and allegro forms depend such double forms in Latin as nihil and nil (Sommer, "Handbuch der lateinischen Laut- und Formenlehre ", § 80); the case of the Karo negative lahaṅ, beside lan, is exactly similar.
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