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 ====Voice====
-Sceptrian distinguishes between two voices, active and antipassive. Antipassive is used to reduce the valency of the verbs by removing the object of a transitive clause.
+Sceptrian distinguishes between two voices, active and antipassive. Passive is very similar to active since Sceptrian is absolutive-ergative, and thus isn't considered a true change in voice. Antipassive is used to reduce the valency of the verbs by removing the object of a transitive clause.
 *Irregularities‽
-Reflexive with double conjugation:
-History of ABS-ERG - Why Sceptrian has it, but Aoma uses NOM-ACC?
-*Passive (~ Aoman 2nd passive... participle form) + causal form: *''Pózaiton pofos dothpe.'' (The feather was lifted by a man.) --> ''<s>p</s>ó'''n'''zaiton doth<s>p</s>e'''e''' pof<s>os</s>.''
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 Ideas: Instrument and turning it into an agent:
 * ''Ónzaiton dothee pof vakuhosozh.'' (...with his own hand...)
-**''Ónzaiton pof vakuhp dothir.'' (the feather is raised by the man's feather)
+**''Ónzaiton pof vakuhp dothir.'' (the feather is raised by the man's hand)
-**''Onzaiton pof tuph dothi'''sh''' slokli.'' (A feather is being lifted with the man's stick for them.) Inanimate agent conjugation, and DAT inflected to avoid misinterpretation!
+**''Onzaiton pof tuph dothi'''sh''' slokli.'' (The feather is being lifted with a man's stick for them.) Inanimate agent conjugation, and DAT inflected to avoid misinterpretation!
-* ''Vakuh ónzait pofos.'' (a hand lifts the feather)/(someone intentionally lifts the feather with their hand) Notice animate conjugation!
+* ''Vakuh ónzait pofos.'' (a hand lifts something, which happens to be a feather)/(someone intentionally lifts a feather with their hand) Notice animate conjugation!
-**''Tup onzait pofos dothpo.'' (a stick, which is being held by a man, lifts the feather) ABL as causative since inanimate ''tup''.
+**''Tup onzait dothpo pofos.'' (a stick, which is being held by a man, lifts something, which happens to be a feather) ABL as causative since inanimate ''tup''.
 ===Numerals===