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| Question 1: By consequence pō (night) became ru`i (nowadays only used in the ________, pō having become the normal word again), but mare (literally cough) has irreversibly been replaced by hota. | |||
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| Question 2: Tahitian makes a phonemic distinction between long and short vowels; long vowels are marked with a tārava or ________. | |||
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| Question 3: For example, pāto, meaning "to pick, to pluck" and pato, "to break out", are distinguished solely by their ________. | |||
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| Question 4: However, in Tahitian the glottal stops are seldom written in practice, and if they are, often as a straight ________ ' , instead of the curly apostrophe. | |||
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| Question 5: (People unfamiliar with Tahitian might mistake it for a punctuation mark.) This is typical of ________ (compare to the Hawaiian ʻokina and others). | |||
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| Question 6: In its morphology, Tahitian relies on the use of "helper words" (such as ________, articles, and particles) to encode grammatical relationships, rather than on inflection, as would be typical of European languages. | |||
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| Question 7: It is practically an isolating language, except when it comes to the ________, which have separate forms for singular, plural and dual numbers. | |||
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| Question 8: Finally there is a toro ’a’ï, a trema put on the i, but only used in ïa when used as a ________. | |||
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| Question 9: Tahitian features a very small number of phonemes, as further evidence of its linguistic heritage: five vowels and eight consonants not counting the lengthened vowels, ________ and the glottal stop. | |||
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| Question 10: Tahitian, a Tahitic language, spoken by Tahitians, is one of the two official languages of ________ (along with French). | |||
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