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 = Truncation/Weak Suppletion =
-Most Minhast nouns are irregular in their IN forms, the majority of which exhibit what has been referred to among Minhast linguists as ''truncation'', but is more commonly referred to as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppletion#Weak_suppletion weak suppletion]  (see also "Noun Incorporation: A New Theoretical Perspective", Alessio Muro, 2009).  Cross-linguistic occurrence of this process may be seen in other languages such as Sora, a  language from the Munda family in  India.  The first example shows the analytic version of the Sora sentence "Will they eat the buffalo/ Do they eat buffalo?".  The second example shows the noun incorporated-version of the same sentence, where the independent word ''bɔŋtɛl'' ("buffalo") has lost its final syllable to create its incorporating form, ''bɔŋ'':
+Most Minhast nouns are irregular in their IN forms, the majority of which exhibit what has been referred to among Minhast linguists as ''truncation'', but is more commonly referred to as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppletion#Weak_suppletion weak suppletion]  (see also "Noun Incorporation: A New Theoretical Perspective", Alessio Muro, 2009).  Cross-linguistically this process is seen in other languages such as Sora, an unrelated language from the Munda family in  India.  The first example shows the analytic version of the Sora sentence "Will they eat the buffalo/ Do they eat buffalo?".  The second example shows the noun incorporated-version of the same sentence, where the independent word ''bɔŋtɛl'' ("buffalo") has lost its final syllable to create its incorporating form, ''bɔŋ'':
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