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===Voice===
===Voice===
As Sowaár morphosyntactic alignment is hierarchical alignment, verbs do not have a canonical voice. Instead there are affixes that raise or lower the verb's valence, i.e. make the verb take one more or one less argument.
As the subject and object of a verb are determined by the animacy hierarchy, verbs do not have a canonical voice. Instead there are affixes that raise or lower the verb's valence, i.e. make the verb take one more or one less argument.


Here are the morphological voices:
Here are the morphological voices:
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