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 *[u o] are in free variation, but [o] is more common when short and [uː] is more common when long.
+*Epenthetic [a] is inserted to break illegal clusters.
-All vowels may be long and/or nasalized.
+All vowels may be long and/or nasalized. Length and nasalization are also separable features on the left bound of some verb roots and affixes; when following consonants these variably either move to the preceding vowel or causes preceding epenthetic [a] to appear.
 ===Pitch accent===
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 ====Agreement====
 {|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
-|+ Numerals
+! !! >{{gcl|1}} !! >{{gcl|2}} !! >{{gcl|3M}} !! >{{gcl|3A}} !! >{{gcl|3}} !! >{{gcl|3I}}
 |-
-! !! a !! a !! a !! a !! a !! a
+! {{gcl|1SG}}
+| style="background-color:#D0D0D0" rowspan="5" | || ku- || rį- || khe- || ke- || khe-
 |-
-! b
+! {{gcl|1+2DU}}
-| rowspan="2" | a || a
+| style="background-color:#D0D0D0" rowspan="2" | || sęthi- || colspan="2" | thi- || rowspan="2" | yethi-
 |-
-! b
+! {{gcl|1+2PL}}
-| a
+| sętha- || colspan="2" | tha-
+|-
+! {{gcl|1+3DU}}
+| rowspan="2" | qua- || sąkhi- || colspan="2" | yakhi- || rowspan="2" | yakhi-
+|-
+! {{gcl|1+3PL}}
+| sąqua- || colspan="2" | yaqua-
+|-
+! {{gcl|2SG}}
+| skę- || style="background-color:#D0D0D0" rowspan="2" | || hęse- || colspan="3" | sę-
+|-
+! {{gcl|2PL}}
+| squą- || sętsha- || colspan="3" | tsha-
+|-
+! {{gcl|3M}}
+| rąke- || yą- || rowspan="2" | ∅- || colspan="3" | rų:ma-
+|-
+! {{gcl|3A}}
+| yuque- || yetsa- || colspan="3" | ku:wa-
+|-
+! {{gcl|3}}
+| wake- || tsa- || rowspan="2" colspan="2" | yo- || ako- || yako-
+|-
+! {{gcl|3I}}
+| yuke- || yetsa- || colspan="2" | ku:wa-
 |}
+*Final vowels in agreement prefixes are deleted before other vowels; deleted nasalized vowels nasalize the following vowel.
+*Indefinite patient agreement is also used for intransitive verbs, and indefinite>indefinite agreement is used for impersonal verbs.
+See also [[Cabot Creole#Nouns|Nouns]] for agreement as possessive marking.
+====Aspect====
+Verbs supplete to mark aspect, or for newer loaned or derived verbs are with suffixes ''-∅/V̀sk/(y)ą'' for imperfective/perfective/punctual aspect respectively.
 ====Verb affix order====
 {| class="wikitable"
-! {{gcl|Q}} !! {{gcl|REP|repetitive}} !! {{gcl|COIN}} !! {{gcl|NEG}} !! {{gcl|OPT}} !! {{gcl|CLOC}}<br>{{gcl|TLOC}} !! agreement !! incorporated<br>noun
+! {{gcl|Q}} !! {{gcl|REP|repetitive}} !! {{gcl|COIN}} !! {{gcl|NEG}} !! {{gcl|OPT}} !! {{gcl|CLOC}}<br>{{gcl|TLOC}} !! {{gcl|PTV}} !! agreement !! incorporated<br>noun
 | stem
 ! {{gcl|PFV}}<br>{{gcl|PUNC}} !! {{gcl|CAUS}} !! {{gcl|NZ}}