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Vadi is a mildly fusional language with some agglutinative characteristics.  Cliticization is a prominent feature of the language, such that considerable debate has arisen as to whether some affixes should be reclassified as clitics.  Further adding to this debate is the ambiguities arising from the orthography in the texts, where a given morpheme may appear as part of a word, and other times a space intervenes between it and the root.  Oftentimes when the morpheme was written separately from the root, the initial or internal phoneme of the separated morpheme changed, indicating some sort of sandhi process occurred, suggestive of an affixal status, despite being written separately.  Recognizing this area remains a contested area, this article generally follows J.F. Schumann's classification system, although some conventions based on Iyyaħmi min Ruššur's more recent work will be used.  Much of Iyyaħmi's findings has now been accepted by Vadists, although some of his other arguments remain contested. Iyyaħmi's conventions, wherever they appear in this article, will be noted.