Editing Hadza language (section)

====The copula====
The ''-pe'' and ''-pi'' forms of nouns often seen in the anthropological literature (actually ''-phee'' and ''-phii'') are [[Copula (linguistics)|copula]]r: ''dongophee'' 'they are zebras'. The copular suffixes distinguish gender in all persons as well as [[clusivity]] in the 1st person. They are:

{|class=wikitable
|-
! ||m.sg.||f.sg.||f.pl.||m.pl
|-
!1.ex
|rowspan=2|-nee ||rowspan=2|-neko ||-'ophee ||-'uphii
|-
!1.in
| -bebee||-bibii
|-
!2
| -tee||-teko||-tetee||-titii
|-
!3
| -a||-ako||-phee||-phii
|}
Forms with high vowels (''i, u'') tend to raise preceding mid vowels to high, just as ''-bii'' does. The 3.sg copula tends to sound like a ''-ya(ko)'' or ''-wa(ko)'' after high and often mid vowels: {{IPA|/oa, ea/}} ≈ {{IPA|[owa, eja]}}, and transcriptions with ''w'' and ''y'' are common in the literature.