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1. The speaker / person addressed appears first and gives the first element of complex suffixes.
1. The speaker / person addressed appears first and gives the first element of complex suffixes.
2. The plural / dual suffix is the last to be attached.  
2. The plural / dual suffix is the last to be attached.  
3. The plural suffix is voiced when possible
3. The plural suffix is voiced when possible
4. The dual suffix is never voiced.
4. The dual suffix is never voiced.
5. Additional persons are placed in between.  
5. Additional persons are placed in between.  
6. An exception to this rule are the first person plural + 1 suffixes which indicate a group of people (we)with another single person. Here the extra person is mentioned first hand and the 'group'-suffix is rendered afterwards. This difference in ordering is due to phonotactic rules that prohibit the following of a sibilant by another sibilant, nasal or plosive sound.
6. An exception to this rule are the first person plural + 1 suffixes which indicate a group of people (we)with another single person. Here the extra person is mentioned first hand and the 'group'-suffix is rendered afterwards. This difference in ordering is due to phonotactic rules that prohibit the following of a sibilant by another sibilant, nasal or plosive sound.


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