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 ) Long vowels may not occur in closed syllables.
-) Vowel clusters do not occur.
+) Long vowels may only occur before /f, s, x, v, z, ɣ, h/ or in morpheme-final position.
-) Canonical syllabification templates for native roots:
+) Vowel clusters do not occur.
+) Native roots are most often disyllabic.
-C₁VC₁VC₂
+) Monosyllabic roots are uncommon and mainly comprise pronouns and certain common nouns and verbs.
-C₁VC₂C₁V
+) Roots with more than two syllables are foreign loans and their syllabic templates generally become nativised over time.
-VC₂C₁VC₂
+) Monosyllabic suffixes may have a word-final allomorph consisting of a single coda consonant which is employed after a short vowel.
-C₃VC₁V
-C₁VC₃V
-C₁V̄C₄V
-C₁VC₁V̄
-V̄C₄VC₂
-V̄C₄V̄
-Notes:
-a) C₁ = any one of /p, t, k, m, n, ŋ, l, ɹ̠, j, w, h/
-b) C₂ = any one of /p, t, k, m, n, ŋ, l, ɹ̠/
-c) C₃ = any one of /tɬ, tʃ, kxʲ, kxʷ, dɮ, dʒ, ɡɣʲ, ɡɣʷ, f, s, x, v, z, ɣ, lʲ, lʷ, ʒʲ, ʒʷ, ɬ, ʃ, xʲ, xʷ/
-d) C₄ = any one of /f, s, x, v, z, ɣ, ɬ, ʃ, h/
-e) V = any short vowel
-f) V̄ = any long vowel
-) Monosyllabic roots are uncommon and mainly comprise pronouns and certain common nouns and verbs.
-) Roots with more than two syllables are foreign loans and their syllabic templates generally become nativised over time.
-) Monosyllabic suffixes may have a word-final allomorph consisting of a single coda consonant which is employed after a short vowel.
 ===Morphophonemics===