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 qaetetnaluonzin /&#660;&#603;t&#600;tnalo&#628;zi&#628;/ - heart, ergative
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+<h5>De-Ejectivisation</h5>
+There are some Antarctican nouns that have ejectives in the absolutive form. As required by the phonotactics, they have tense voiced vowels both before and after (possibly with /&#628;/ intervening). However, sometimes in the ergative form, the tense voiced vowel after the ejective becomes modally voiced. In this case, the airstream mechanism changes from glottalic egressive (ejective) to pulmonic egressive (normal) e.g.
+kíeycchíey /kei&#660;c&#700;ei&#660;/ - a female name, absolutive
+kíeychuekin /kei&#660;c&#616;ki&#628;/ - a female name, ergative
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