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Sentence Types[]
Reported Speech[]
For using reported speech in Atudab, you have only to make a pause and insert the quoted sentence as it is, making required adaptations in pronoun, place and time indicators. Ex.:
| [mĩ:be ŋxɔ̃:ncĩ:m, "ʔe:bo ʔe:lʔa:b".] | The man said, "I am tired." |
| [mĩ:be ŋxɔ̃:ncĩ:m, ju:lo (powij) ʔe:lʔa:b.] | The man said, he (was) tired. = The man said that he was tired. |
| [pojɛ:phob ŋxɔ̃:ncĩ:m luʔe:boʔət, "ʔe:ndɾɛ̃:dzo (wij) ʔodz".] | She told me, "I love you." |
| [pojɛ:phob ŋxɔ̃:ncĩ:m luʔe:boʔət, jɛ:pndɾɛ̃:dzo (wij) ʔe:bo.] | She told me, she loves me. = She told me that she loves me. |
| [ʔe:hob ŋxɔ̃:ncĩ:m, ʔe:bo cɔwwɔ: catɾux] | I said (that) I will be there. |
| [pocɔhob ŋxɔ̃:ncĩ:m, "pɾaŋɔ̃:jɔ lucɔwwɔ:ʔət catɾux".] | They said, "we will go there." |
| [ʔe:ŋɛ̃:mly:, cɔŋɔ̃:jɔ lutɾitɔʔət.] | I thought, they would come here. |