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| 6) If a long back vowel occurs before /w/ due to affixation then that long back vowel is reduced to its corresponding short vowel. | | 6) If a long back vowel occurs before /w/ due to affixation then that long back vowel is reduced to its corresponding short vowel. |
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| ===Consonant Gradation===
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| 1) Consonants eligible for consonant gradation are geminate consonants and, for single stops, following a nasal, liquid or vowel.
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| 2) It is triggered when eligible consonants are at the beginning of an open syllable and that syllable becomes closed due to suffixation.
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| 3) The affected consonants lenite as per the table below:
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| {| class="wikitable"
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| |Base Form||Gradated Form
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| |pp||p
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| |tt||t
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| |kk||k
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| |p||w
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| |t||ɹ
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| |k||j
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| |mm||m
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| |nn||n
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| |ŋŋ||ŋ
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| |ll||l
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| 4) Consonant gradation takes effect after the effects of consonant sandhi.
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| 5) Prefixes are unaffected by consonant gradation as are the beginning of roots.
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| ==Morphology== | | ==Morphology== |