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# Morphophonology and Morphology

As indicated earlier, there are three morphological classes of words:
contentives (open class: the lexical words used to refer to the concepts being talked about in the utterance);
inflecting function words (closed class; morphophonologically indistinguishable from contentives, but differing from the latters by having special effects on the surrounding syntax);
indeclinable, uninflected function words, AKA particles (closed class).
* contentives (open class: the lexical words used to refer to the concepts being talked about in the utterance);
* inflecting function words (closed class; morphophonologically indistinguishable from contentives, but differing from the latters by having special effects on the surrounding syntax);
* indeclinable, uninflected function words, AKA particles (closed class).

Function words are closed classes, i.e. they have a limited, restricted membership, no new members are added to them, or only rarely.

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/ʎi/ and /ɲi/ are not allowed, except possibly as allophonic realizations of /li/ and /ni/ respectively.

Words never begin with a consonant clusters, with a few exceptions:
/w/ may appear after certain consonants, and is realized as labialization of the preceding consonant.
One of the Binding proclitics, the nasal proclitic /ʔm̩꞊/, realized as a syllabic nasal (a bilabial one most of the time) preceded by an unwritten glottal stop, can appear at the beginning of a word immediately before another consonant; the syllabic nasal assimilates in place of articulation with certain (not all) consonants:
coronal plosives and affricates (/ʔm̩꞊t/ → [ʔn̩꞊t]);
velar and uvular plosives (/ʔm̩꞊k/ → [ʔŋ̩꞊k]; /ʔm̩꞊q/ → [ʔɴ̩꞊q]).
* /w/ may appear after certain consonants, and is realized as labialization of the preceding consonant.
* One of the Anchoring proclitics, the nasal proclitic /ʔm̩꞊/, realized as a syllabic nasal (a bilabial one most of the time) preceded by an unwritten glottal stop, can appear at the beginning of a word immediately before another consonant; the syllabic nasal assimilates in place of articulation with certain (not all) consonants:
  — coronal plosives and affricates (/ʔm̩꞊t/ → [ʔn̩꞊t]);
  — velar and uvular plosives (/ʔm̩꞊k/ → [ʔŋ̩꞊k]; /ʔm̩꞊q/ → [ʔɴ̩꞊q]).
The assimilation is shown in the romanized orthography:
/ʔm̩꞊takóju/ ↦ ⟪ntakóyu⟫.
  /ʔm̩꞊takóju/ ↦ ⟪ntakóyu⟫.
The [ɴ] allophone is written ⟪ŋ⟫:
/ʔm̩꞊qakóju/ ↦ ⟪ŋqakóyu⟫.
  /ʔm̩꞊qakóju/ ↦ ⟪ŋqakóyu⟫.

Similarly, the coda of the last syllable of a word never contains a consonant cluster.

Consonant clusters may only occur across syllable boundaries, where two-consonant clusters and more rarely three-consonant clusters may occur.

⸨TODO: List allowed and disallowed clusters.⸩
*⸨TODO: List allowed and disallowed clusters.⸩*


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