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=== Tokelauan === In [[Tokelauan language|Tokelauan]], {{lang|tkl|ia}} is used when describing personal names, month names, and nouns used to describe a collaborative group of people participating in something together.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last1=Simona|first1=Ropati|title=Tokelau Dictionary|date=1986|publisher=Office of Tokelau Affairs|location=New Zealand|page=Introduction}}</ref> It also can be used when a verb does not directly precede a pronoun to describe said pronouns.<ref name=":0" /> Its use for pronouns is optional but mostly in this way. {{lang|tkl|Ia}} cannot be used if the noun it is describing follows any of the prepositions {{lang|tkl|e, o, a}}, or {{lang|tkl|ko}}.<ref name=":0" /> A couple of the other ways unrelated to what is listed above that {{lang|tkl|ia}} is used is when preceding a locative or place name.<ref name=":0" /> However, if {{lang|tkl|ia}} is being used in this fashion, the locative or place name must be the subject of the sentence.<ref name=":0" /> Another particle in Tokelauan is {{lang|tkl|a}}, or sometimes {{lang|tkl|Δ}}.<ref name=":0" /> This article is used before a person's name as well as the names of months and the particle {{lang|tkl|a te}} is used before pronouns when these instances are following the prepositions {{lang|tkl|i}} or {{lang|tkl|ki}}. {{lang|tkl|Ia te}} is a particle used if following the preposition {{lang|tkl|mai}}.<ref name=":0" />
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