Example 59-59

mo ga so, me mbi ke saar tone nyen'?!
mo
2sg
ga
come
so,
thus
me
so
mbi
1sg
ke
cop
sara
do
tongana
like
nyen'?!
what
Since you've come, what am I going to do?!
Comment:
When a question is repeated or when expressing emotion, a rising-falling contour with greater emphasis occurs on the final syllable represented by (?!).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Samarin corpus 1994