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A word could have more than one suffix and prefix. In Classical Meskangela this system was altered, allowing open root syllables, as well as consonant clusters within syllables, where the first element was "s" followed by a consonant, usually an aspirated plosive, which could precede the third element "l". Individual consonants could be geminated depending on their position in the string of morphemes. The semivowel phonologically had become a part of the initial consonant or cluster by the classical period, but in the model it is still convenient to analyse it as a separate element. Certain suffixes underwent syncope of their reduced vowels, thus allowing more consonant clusters outside the root. Thus, during the classical period the inflected word typically followed this structure: | A word could have more than one suffix and prefix. In Classical Meskangela this system was altered, allowing open root syllables, as well as consonant clusters within syllables, where the first element was "s" followed by a consonant, usually an aspirated plosive, which could precede the third element "l". Individual consonants could be geminated depending on their position in the string of morphemes. The semivowel phonologically had become a part of the initial consonant or cluster by the classical period, but in the model it is still convenient to analyse it as a separate element. Certain suffixes underwent syncope of their reduced vowels, thus allowing more consonant clusters outside the root. Thus, during the classical period the inflected word typically followed this structure: | ||
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|PV<sub>p</sub>—(s)C<sub>i</sub>(:)—(l)—G—V(:/t)—C<sub>f</sub>—(V<sub>s1</sub>)—S(:)(V<sub>s2</sub>) | |PV<sub>p</sub>—(s)C<sub>i</sub>(:)—(l)—G—V(:/t)—C<sub>f</sub>(:)—(V<sub>s1</sub>)—S(:)(V<sub>s2</sub>) | ||
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Later dialects generally follow the model above, modifying some individual elements, such as adding more permissible clusters, or merging the clusters into single consonants, thus retaining all the elements only nominally. This is especially true for the Southern dialects, most of which became fairly analytic and lost most of their suffixes and prefixes in the process, as well as tone and contrastive vowel length. | Later dialects generally follow the model above, modifying some individual elements, such as adding more permissible clusters, or merging the clusters into single consonants, thus retaining all the elements only nominally. This is especially true for the Southern dialects, most of which became fairly analytic and lost most of their suffixes and prefixes in the process, as well as tone and contrastive vowel length. | ||
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