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Dependent Nouns: Family

my father, his younger brother, my uncle...

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Nukumish ume.

Here is my uncle.

Nutaui nenua ushtesha.

He is my father's older brother.

Umenua utishkuema mak utauassima: nishtinua ukussa mak nishinua utanisha.

Here are his wife and children: (he has) three sons and two daughters.

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Antane mak Pien

Tan eshpanin?

How are you?

Tanite tekuak atautshuap?

Where is the store?

Miam anite meshkanat.

Just over there, on the path.

Tshin a Uniam ushtesha?

Are you Uniam's (William's) older brother?

Mauat, ushima.

No, his younger brother.

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