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====Vowel harmony==== | ====Vowel harmony==== | ||
:For more info cf. [[#Aspect|aspect]]. | |||
Nominals and verbals in Rówok show very simple vowel harmony with predictable ablaut. Simply said all nominals and verbals have exclusively one possible vowel (plus /i/, as explained below). | |||
The principle rules for determining the vowel structure of a given root are as follows: | |||
*If /a/ appears in the root (by law only initially or medially), the theme vowel is automatically /a/. If the root is tri- or quad-consonantal and does not contain /w/, the theme vowel is also /a/. | |||
*If /w/ appears medially or finally in a root, the theme vowel is /o/. | |||
As explained in the section on [[#Aspect|aspect]], words that have primary vowel structure based on /a/ show ablaut phenomena to /e/, while words based on /o/ ablaut to /u/. | |||
Examples | |||
:Participles | |||
*'''rokónok''' ("to speak", nominative, singular, passive, ''imperfect'' [[#Participles|particple]]) => '''rukúnuk''' (nom, sing, pass, ''perfect'' participle) | |||
*'''yáŧkay''' (nom, sing, middle, ''future'' participle) => '''yéŧkey''' (nom, sing, middle, ''future perfect'' participle) | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||