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I meant to gather more examples before posting this question, but here we go.
These are some lines out of various Ghibli movies I saw last weekend.

```

    わからないは - when asked to take a guess about something
    いないは - after looking for someone in a specific place
    
```

I realize this is casual and may not be strictly grammatically correct. Still
I wonder what's the reasoning behind these type of sentences. It's not
difficult to understand what they mean, but why は? How would a native speaker
justify the particle? And if someone can tie it to some formally correct
version of the sentences that would be great!
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sentence-final-particles
は as sentence final particle
As a sentence-final particle, it's `わ`, not `は`. See more about in
[this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/244/78) post and
[this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/2886/78) post.
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