The remarkable voice system described for Mubi seems to interact with relativisation, but textual data is scarce. In textual examples of subject relativisation, the same suffix shows up that Jungraithmayr describes as forming attributive adjectives; compare:
| njó | tú | gì | hìtt-ìt | sàhíi | tú |
| person | ? | M.REL | pronounce.IPFV-ADJ | truth | ? |
| a person who speaks the truth (Jungraithmayr 2013:64, 115) |
| jóról | gì | mèed-ít |
| jackal | M.REL | die.PFV-ADJ |
| a dead jackal / a jackal which has died |
Lukas gives phrasal examples where there is clearly no suffix, but are they really relatives?
| njóo | gàŋ | húwútà | bògòs |
| person | M.DEM.DIST | fish[V].IPFV | fish.PL |
| fisherman = a person who catches fish (Lukas 1937:159) |
What about when you relativise on a direct object? In the two textual examples found, the subject agreement seems to be from Series III (not I, as I would have expected); but perhaps these verbs take obliques rather than direct objects in Mubi. Thus:
| lì | gì | fány-gát |
| thing | M.REL | want.PFV-2MSg.II/III |
| the thing that you want [whatever you want] (Jungraithmayr 2013:147) |
| lì | gì | wáa-got | wàaró | gà |
| thing | M.REL | call.PFV-3Pl.III | grain | DEM.M |
| this thing that they call grain (Jungraithmayr 2013:139) |
The only other Mubic language for which data is available behaves reasonably similarly. In Zerenkel subject relativisation, we see what might be the same attributive suffix in some cases, whose -t is lost in Zerenkel:
| ro | ga | guwaan-i | weyya |
| man | M.REL | cultivate.IPFV-ADJ? | field |
| the man who cultivates the field (Ramat 2017) |
although the verb may instead appear with Series I for clause-internal reasons independent of relativisation:
| luk | da | na | umma | ci |
| woman | F.REL | 1Sg | see.IPFV | 3FSg.I |
| the woman who sees me (Ramat 2017) |
In object relativisation, it looks as though we see Series I as expected:
| luk | da | umma | na |
| woman | F.REL | see.IPFV | 1Sg.I |
| the woman whom I see (Ramat 2017) |
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