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==Morphophonology== | ==Morphophonology== | ||
===Gemination=== | ===Vowel Length and Gemination=== | ||
A number of proclitic morphemes such as the nominals (which indicate a subject), the essive proclitic ⫽weː⫽ and the possessive proclitics ⫽niː⫽ and ⫽nuː⫽ contain the archiphoneme ⫽ː⫽ which is realised as the gemination of the following consonant, which belongs to the next morpheme, unless the next morpheme is a verb consisting of a single consonant or another morpheme containing ⫽ː⫽, in which case ⫽ː⫽ is realised as a lengthening of the vowel of the proclitic. | |||
For example, verb corresponding to the first person singular subject pronoun ("I") may be either '''''ž''''' or '''''žan'''''. Applying the b-ranked, definite subject nominal clitic ⫽aː⫽ results in '''''aaž''''' or '''''ažžan''''' respectively (both meaning 'I', with the latter being more emphatically singular, 'I and no one else'). The essive proclitic ⫽weː⫽ applied to '''''ž''''' or '''''žan''''' results in '''''weež''''' or '''''wežžan''''' respectively ('who is me') and the a sequence of essive ⫽weː⫽ and subordinate possessive ⫽niː⫽ applied to '''''ž''''' or '''''žan''''' results in '''''wenniiž''''' or '''''wennižžan''''' respectively ('my', 'which is mine'). | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||