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Hapi

tàahoih pihi hasáa-h=tài sáá-h=kóa tóixia-soa

1 girl be.best-1=DEM eat-1=DECL maracuya-PL

‘I, the best girl, am eating (some) maracuyas.’

Notes

  • A demonstrative may be suffixed to a finite verb to form relative clauses.
  • The Hapi can't read and aren't familiar with the concept of books, so I changed the sentence so that it would be realistic for a native speaker of Hapi to utter it like that.
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