“Òtòlò-ó jẹ, òtòlò-ó mu, òtòlò-ó fẹsẹ̀ wé ẹsẹ̀ erin.”
English
The water-buck ate, the water-buck drank, the water-buck compared its limbs to an elephant's.
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