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====Tonal patterns of nominals==== | ====Tonal patterns of nominals==== | ||
Every noun falls under one of | Every noun falls under one of four tonal paradigms. | ||
#''kanǔar'' ('sitting'): The most common paradigm, the downstep remains stationary, except as required by downstep rules or in the presence of the downstep-attracting absolute possession suffixes. | |||
#''šanŧǐel'' ('shunning/evading'): The downstep is never on the suffix. | |||
#('standing') | |||
#''gánħāŋém'' ('skipping/tumbling'): The downstep is one mora before the boundary of the suffix in the base form, and moves to the desinence upon inflection by a definite suffix. | |||
====Irregular nouns==== | ====Irregular nouns==== |
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