wala lo gwe mu azo ni ti gwe te, wala lo e mu saa na ala gi tonenyen', e hinga ape
wala
whether
lo
3sg
gwe
go
mu
take
a-zo
pl-person
ni
def
ti
to
gwe
go
te,
eat
wala
whether
lo
3sg
yeke
cop
mu
take
sara
do
na
prep
ala
3pl
gi
only
tongana
like
nyen',
what
e
1pl
hinga
know
ape
neg
We don't know if he took the people to eat them or if he was going to do whatever with them.
Comment:
This was in a tape recording of a young man in Obo, at the easternmost part of the Central African Republic, in 1962. I remember being surprised by it, because whereas this was similar to what I had heard in the west, this young man had never travelled in other parts of the country. I'm surprised also by gwe te and mu saa, because I would expect ti between the verbs.