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Revision as of 15:33, 10 February 2022


Part of Speech

  1. Open
    • Noun, verb, adjective
  2. Semi-closed
    • Determiner, adverb, conjunction
  3. Closed
    • Pronoun, particle, auxiliary, complementizer

Morphological Analysis

1. Size prefixes

  • The diminutive prefixes i and the augmentative prefix a can be prefixed to a set of adjectival roots generating pairs of antonyms.
    • -ix (big)
    • -iet (big)
    • -a (small)
    • ax (small)

2. mu- prefix 'place, sky, stream'

3. Nominalizer suffixes

  • -lu (action)
  • -jjux (quality or extent)
  • -tie (manner)

4. Adjectivizer suffixes

  • -sa
  • -we

5. Reduplicaiton

  • Nouns
  • Cl
  • Pronouns
  • Verbs/Adjectives reduplicate to form alternative question

6.Color Ideophones

7. Gender/Age suffixes