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The handling of reduplication is novel. De Laat proposes that it was indicated in either of two ways: Iconically, by writing a glyph twice, as in glyph 700glyph 700, or through hatching or cross-hatching, as in glyph 700 hatched or glyph 700 cross hatched, any of which would be read /kaka/. The glyph that most frequently appears hatched is 1 glyph 1 /a, ha, ʔa/, common on the Staff, which de Laat proposes is the interrogative and purportedly relative pronoun aha "which?, what?". However, many glyphs which are commonly found doubled, such as 200 glyph 200glyph 200, never occur hatched, and de Laat does not address this discrepancy.
Although this relative-pronoun reading of 1-1 aha "which?" is the basis of several of de Laat's translations, it does not actually function as a relative pronoun in the Rapa Nui language.[89] For example, de Laat reads one line as anga matea i aha te tae haaauraa "[they] create a [state of] lifelessness, for which [there is] no explanation!"[90] Apart from the grammatical problem of the pronoun, the final word, haaauraa "meaning, to explain",[91] is a loan from Tahitian ha‘a aura‘a "to explain", and so would not be expected in a pre-contact text.[note 26]
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