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Example 59-48
mo ga ti sara
nyen'
la?
mo
2sg
ga
come
ti
of
sara
do
nyen'
what
la?
foc
What have you come to do there?
Comment:
The focus marker
la
is not necessary. In contemporary Sango it seems to be overused.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
nd
Language:
Sango
by
William J. Samarin
cite
Datapoints:
Position of interrogative phrases in content questions: Interrogative phrase not initial
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