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==Morphophonology== | ==Morphophonology== | ||
Each of the eleven consonants is associated with a | Each of the eleven consonants is associated with a ''primary'' vowel and vice versa. The primary vowels are all the monophthongs /a aː e eː i iː o oː u uː/ plus the diphthong /ai/. These pairs are relevant for ''inversions'' and ''conversions'' such as the noun '''k_j_m_''' ('the dog') which converts to the verb '''_uu_o_i''' ('be a dog'). | ||
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All trisyllabic lemmas are composed of three of the resulting syllables. For example '''''jotaale''''' is allowable as a lemma whereas '''''jitaale''''' is not because '''j''' and '''i''' are not a pair. | |||
Quadrisyllabic lemmas begin with a '''CVV''' prefix containing a secondary vowel. Secondary vowels are /au eo ia io iu ua ue ui/ and then consist of syllables containing primary vowels with no requirement that the vowels appear in a syllable with any particular consonant. For example, '''nuajitailu''' is a valid quadrisyllabic lemma because the first syllable contains a secondary vowel and the final three syllables contain primary vowels. | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||