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Nearly all lemmata are composed of three of the resulting syllables. For example '''''jotaale''''' is allowable as a lemma whereas '''''jitaale''''' is not because ''ji'' is not a lemma syllable. | Nearly all lemmata are composed of three of the resulting syllables. For example '''''jotaale''''' is allowable as a lemma whereas '''''jitaale''''' is not because ''ji'' is not a lemma syllable. | ||
The | The following short diphthongs are only found in long roots. The following pairs alternate with each other, occurring in prefixes on nouns and suffixes on verbs. | ||
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! Noun<br />(prefix) !! Verb<br />(suffix) | |||
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| ua || ia | |||
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| ue || io | |||
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| ui || iu | |||
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Additionally, the long rising diphthongs /iaː ioː iuː uaː ueː uiː/ appear only in clitics and have no pattern of alteration. | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== |
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