wi ‘yes’ and no ‘no’ are commonly used to answer yes/no questions.

In content questions (that ask for some specific information), interrogative phrases such as ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘why’ are usually placed at the position where the corresponding word would occur in non-question sentences – in contrast to English, they are not moved to the front of the sentence (WALS 93; APiCS 12).

Question words include:

ke – what
ke jen – who
ke tem – when
ke ples – where
por ke – why

XXX Examples for kese ‘how’ (in what manner, in what state, in which way):

… – How did you find me?
… – She showed her friend how to do it.
… – I remember well how I first met her/him. (used as conjunction)

If the answer will likely not contain a copula, no copula is used in the question either:

Ti kese? – How are you?
Mi hau. – I’m good.

XXX Explain how to express ‘which’ and ‘how many/how much’.