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===Syllabification and diphthongisation=== | ===Syllabification and diphthongisation=== | ||
In unstressed prefixes, colourless or epenthetic vowels may drop out in favour of syllabification of an adjacent fricative or nasal, or an /i/ or /u/ may reduce to its glide counterpart, forming a diphthong with the preceding vowel. This is represented in the romanisation by an apostrophe. An example of the former is the inalienable possession prefix ''(a)n-'' becoming ''’n-'', and an example of the latter is the proximal reflexive ''aye-'' becoming ''ay’-''. Some word stems have inherent consonantal prefixes that get resolved the same way: '' | In unstressed prefixes, colourless or epenthetic vowels may drop out in favour of syllabification of an adjacent fricative or nasal, or an /i/ or /u/ may reduce to its glide counterpart, forming a diphthong with the preceding vowel. This is represented in the romanisation by an apostrophe. An example of the former is the inalienable possession prefix ''(a)n-'' becoming ''’n-'', and an example of the latter is the proximal reflexive ''aye-'' becoming ''ay’-''. Some word stems have inherent consonantal prefixes that get resolved the same way: ''n-doo-'' "(fire) smoke" becomes ''’ndoo-'' in the absence of a prefix, and ''ad’ndoo-'' when the transitive-volitional ''ah-'' is added; ''w-see-'' "breathe" similarly syllabifies to ''osee-'' and ''ahosee-'' but gets spelled without the apostrophe since there is a corresponding vowel letter in the romanisation. | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||