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Example 62-98
wáa?onhi miharéga
u-áa-?onhi
2sg
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pst
-wash
miharega
hands
Did you wash your hands?
Comment:
Question intonation consists of rise and half-fall utterance-finally.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Own field data 1993
Language:
Mixed Ma’a/Mbugu
by
Maarten Mous
cite
Datapoints:
Polar questions: Only interrogative intonation
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