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Table for infixes

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 Antarctican. It is conflated with pronominal object marking, both only
 affecting transitive verbs and usually using infixes that come immediately after
-the first consonant of the verb base. In each case there are two forms of the
+the first consonant of the verb base. As with elsewhere in the language, these
-infix, one that contains a hard consonant that is used with verbs beginning
+are not differentiated for number, although there is an inclusive and exclusive
+“us”.
+<h4> Infixation </h4>
+This is the default way of marking pronominal objects and grammatical voice. In each case there are two forms of the infix, one that contains a hard consonant that is used with verbs beginning
 with hard consonants, and another that contains a soft consonant that is used
-with verbs beginning with soft consonants. These are listed together in pairs,
+with verbs beginning with soft consonants. These are listed below in pairs,
 with the hard version coming first and then the soft version.
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Infixes for Voice and Object Pronouns
+|-
+|
+|Hard Form
+|Soft Form
+|-
+|1PS Exclusive
+|iem
+|imy
+|-
+|1PS Inclusive
+|as
+|iehl
+|-
+|2PS
+|os
+|ohl
+|-
+|3PS
+|ar
+|iel
+|-
+|Reflexive
+|ies
+|ihl
+|-
+|Perfective Antipassive
+|it
+|utl
+|-
+|Imperfective Antipassive
+|am
+|iemy
+|-
+|Superordinate
+|át(t)
+|áe(t)tl
+|}
+These come immediately after the first
+consonant of the verb base e.g.
+damaehlu /dam&#603;&#620;u/ - to scam / swindle, mirative
+dosamaehlu /d&#596;sam&#603;&#620;u/ - to scam / swindle you, mirative
+damaehlu /dam&#603;&#620;u/ - to scam, mirative
+diemamaehlu /dem&#603;&#620;u/ - to scam me / us (not including you), mirative
+All of the usual rules about phonation
+spreading apply e.g.
+pyùu /p&#690;u&#720;&#614;/ - to purify, noun-focus
+pyùemyùu /p&#690;&#616;&#614;mp&#690;u&#720;&#614;/ - to purify me / us (not including you, noun-focus
+pyèlùu /p&#690;&#600;&#614;lu&#720;&#614;/ - to purify him / her, noun-focus
+The infixes with non-back vowels and
+voiceless consonants also undergo vowel mutation if the following vowel has
+modal voice. This is the exact same as has been described before for noun and verb prefixes e.g.
+damaehlu /dam&#603;&#620;u/ - to scam / swindle, mirative
+daesamaehlu /d&#603;sam&#603;&#620;u/ - to scam / swindle us (including you), mirative
+desamaehlu /d&#600;sam&#603;&#620;u/ - to scam / swindle oneself, mirative
+If the first vowel of the verb base has
+breathy or tense voice, and the infix inserted would contain /&#620;/ (which
+can only occur before modal voice vowels), then this becomes /l/. However it
+still blocks the spread of the voicing e.g.
+pyùu /p&#690;u&#720;&#614;/ - to purify,
+noun-focus
+pyolùu /p&#690;&#596;lu&#720;&#614;/ - to purify you, noun-focus
+pyilùu /p&#690;ilu&#720;&#614;/ - to purify onesself, noun-focus
+pyielùu /p&#690;elu&#720;&#614;/ - to purify
+ourselves (including you), noun-focus
+Note that the last example this is distinct
+from pyèlùu /p&#690;&#600;&#614;lu&#720;&#614;/ - to purify him / her,
+noun-focus, which has breathy voice spreading onto the infix.
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