Example 59-320

wala ala ke si kekereke, wala ala ke si ape, mbi hinga ape
wala
or
ala
3pl
ke
cop
si
arrive
kekereke,
tomorrow
wala
or
ala
3pl
ke
cop
si
arrive
ape,
neg
mbi
1sg
hinga
know
ape
neg
I don't know if they will arrive tomorrow.
Comment:
This would be the way I would translate the English sentence. Although my sentence is structured in the manner of a sentence in Gbaya, I did tape-record a wala ... wala sentence like this in 1962 at Obo in the extemporaneous speech of a Zande person who claimed to know only Sango.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge