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Dillon: /* Consonants */

2026-05-13T03:24:43Z

Consonants

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	*Plain stops and affricates are voiced intervocalically, including across word boundaries; /t/ is voiced as [ɾ].		*Plain stops and affricates are voiced intervocalically, including across word boundaries; /t/ is voiced as [ɾ].
	*Sibilants are realized as postalveolar before /j/ and front vowels, including across word boundaries.		*Sibilants are realized as postalveolar before /j/ and front vowels, including across word boundaries.
	*/w ɹ j/ not adjacent to a vowel ~~are realized as [~~i ə o].		*/w ɹ j/ not adjacent to a vowel become /i ə o/.
	*Some speakers insert [ʔ] between vowels on word boundaries and before utterance-initial vowels.		*Some speakers insert [ʔ] between vowels on word boundaries and before utterance-initial vowels.

Dillon: /* Consonants */

2026-05-13T03:24:11Z

Consonants

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	*Plain stops and affricates are voiced intervocalically, including across word boundaries; /t/ is voiced as [ɾ].		*Plain stops and affricates are voiced intervocalically, including across word boundaries; /t/ is voiced as [ɾ].
	*Sibilants are realized as postalveolar before /j/ and front vowels, including across word boundaries.		*Sibilants are realized as postalveolar before /j/ and front vowels, including across word boundaries.
	*/w j/ not adjacent to a vowel are realized as [i o].		*/w ɹ j/ not adjacent to a vowel are realized as [i ə o].
	*Some speakers insert [ʔ] between vowels on word boundaries and before utterance-initial vowels.		*Some speakers insert [ʔ] between vowels on word boundaries and before utterance-initial vowels.

Dillon: /* Coincident and motion */

2026-05-13T02:52:21Z

Coincident and motion

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	Coincident ''ts-'' marks simultaneous action, and forms relative clauses.		Coincident ''ts-'' marks simultaneous action, and forms relative clauses.

	''t-'' and ''ya:w-'' mark cislocative and translocative motion respectively; the cislocative is also used to mark imperatives, and the translocative is also used to mark superlative adjective-like verbs.		''t-'' and ''ya:w-'' mark cislocative and translocative motion respectively; the cislocative is also used to mark imperatives (though ''-thamąrę́'' is used periphrastically for prohibitives), and the translocative is also used to mark superlative adjective-like verbs.

	====Partitive and instrumental====		====Partitive and instrumental====

Dillon: /* Consonants */

2026-05-13T02:48:22Z

Consonants

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	*Plain stops and affricates are voiced intervocalically, including across word boundaries; /t/ is voiced as [ɾ].		*Plain stops and affricates are voiced intervocalically, including across word boundaries; /t/ is voiced as [ɾ].
	*Sibilants are realized as postalveolar before /j/ and front vowels, including across word boundaries.		*Sibilants are realized as postalveolar before /j/ and front vowels, including across word boundaries.
			*/w j/ not adjacent to a vowel are realized as [i o].
	*Some speakers insert [ʔ] between vowels on word boundaries and before utterance-initial vowels.		*Some speakers insert [ʔ] between vowels on word boundaries and before utterance-initial vowels.

Dillon: /* Verbs */

2026-05-13T02:36:17Z

Verbs

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	*Final vowels in agreement prefixes are deleted before other vowels; deleted nasalized vowels nasalize the following vowel.		*Final vowels in agreement prefixes are deleted before other vowels; deleted nasalized vowels nasalize the following vowel.
	*Indefinite patient agreement is also used for intransitive verbs, and indefinite>indefinite agreement is used for impersonal verbs.		*Indefinite patient agreement is also used for intransitive verbs, and indefinite>indefinite agreement is used for impersonal verbs.
			*Verbs with adjective-like meanings and two non-indefinite arguments are often semantically comparative.

	See also [[Cabot Creole#Nouns\|Nouns]] for agreement as possessive marking.		See also [[Cabot Creole#Nouns\|Nouns]] for agreement as possessive marking.
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	====~~Motion, partitive,~~ and ~~instrumental~~====		====Coincident and motion====
	''t-'' and ~~''ya:w-'' mark cislocative and translocative motion respectively; the cislocative is also used to mark imperatives~~.		Coincident ''ts-'' marks simultaneous action, and forms relative clauses.

			''t-'' and ''ya:w-'' mark cislocative and translocative motion respectively; the cislocative is also used to mark imperatives, and the translocative is also used to mark superlative adjective-like verbs.

			====Partitive and instrumental====
	Partitive ''li-'' singularizes or otherwise reduces a verb's agent.		Partitive ''li-'' singularizes or otherwise reduces a verb's agent.

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	====Questions and negation====		====Questions and negation====
	Questions and negation are marked by verb prefixes ''to-'' and ''te-'' ~~(realized as ''tow-'' and ''te’-'' before vowels)~~ respectively.		Questions and negation are marked by verb prefixes ''to-'' and ''te-'' respectively.

	===Numerals===		===Numerals===

Dillon: /* Verb affix order */

2026-05-13T02:30:24Z

Verb affix order

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	! {{gcl\|PFV}}<br>{{gcl\|PUNC}} !! {{gcl\|INST}} !! {{gcl\|CAUS}} !! {{gcl\|NZ}}		! {{gcl\|PFV}}<br>{{gcl\|PUNC}} !! {{gcl\|INST}} !! {{gcl\|CAUS}} !! {{gcl\|NZ}}
	\|}		\|}

			====Motion, partitive, and instrumental====
			''t-'' and ''ya:w-'' mark cislocative and translocative motion respectively; the cislocative is also used to mark imperatives.

			Partitive ''li-'' singularizes or otherwise reduces a verb's agent.

			Instrumental ''-quhi'' marks an incorporated noun as an instrument or means.

	====Questions and negation====		====Questions and negation====

Dillon: /* Verb affix order */

2026-05-13T02:26:24Z

Verb affix order

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	! {{gcl\|Q}} !! {{gcl\|REP\|repetitive}} !! {{gcl\|COIN}} !! {{gcl\|NEG}} !! {{gcl\|OPT}} !! {{gcl\|CLOC}}<br>{{gcl\|TLOC}} !! {{gcl\|PTV}} !! agreement !! incorporated<br>noun		! {{gcl\|Q}} !! {{gcl\|REP\|repetitive}} !! {{gcl\|COIN}} !! {{gcl\|NEG}} !! {{gcl\|OPT}} !! {{gcl\|CLOC}}<br>{{gcl\|TLOC}} !! {{gcl\|PTV}} !! agreement !! incorporated<br>noun
	\| stem		\| stem
	! {{gcl\|PFV}}<br>{{gcl\|PUNC}} !! {{gcl\|CAUS}} !! {{gcl\|NZ}}		! {{gcl\|PFV}}<br>{{gcl\|PUNC}} !! {{gcl\|INST}} !! {{gcl\|CAUS}} !! {{gcl\|NZ}}
	\|}		\|}

Dillon: /* Vowels */

2026-05-11T16:10:11Z

Vowels

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	*[u o] are in free variation, but [o] is more common when short and [uː] is more common when long.		*[u o] are in free variation, but [o] is more common when short and [uː] is more common when long.
	*Epenthetic [a] is inserted to break illegal clusters.		*Epenthetic [a] is inserted to break illegal clusters.
			*Coda /{i,e,o,a}ɹ/ are realized as /e,ə,a,ə/.

	All vowels may be long and/or nasalized. Length and nasalization are also separable features on the left bound of some verb roots and affixes; when following consonants these variably either move to the preceding vowel or causes preceding epenthetic [a] to appear.		All vowels may be long and/or nasalized. Length and nasalization are also separable features on the left bound of some verb roots and affixes; when following consonants these variably either move to the preceding vowel or causes preceding epenthetic [a] to appear.

Dillon at 22:59, 10 May 2026

2026-05-10T22:59:41Z

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	====Verb affix order====		====Verb affix order====
	{\| class="wikitable"		{\| class="wikitable"
	! {{gcl\|Q}} !! {{gcl\|REP\|repetitive}} !! {{gcl\|COIN}} !! {{gcl\|NEG}} !! {{gcl\|OPT}} !! {{gcl\|CLOC}}<br>{{gcl\|TLOC}} !! agreement !! incorporated<br>noun		! {{gcl\|Q}} !! {{gcl\|REP\|repetitive}} !! {{gcl\|COIN}} !! {{gcl\|NEG}} !! {{gcl\|OPT}} !! {{gcl\|CLOC}}<br>{{gcl\|TLOC}} !! {{gcl\|PTV}} !! agreement !! incorporated<br>noun
	\| stem		\| stem
	! {{gcl\|PFV}}<br>{{gcl\|PUNC}} !! {{gcl\|CAUS}} !! {{gcl\|NZ}}		! {{gcl\|PFV}}<br>{{gcl\|PUNC}} !! {{gcl\|CAUS}} !! {{gcl\|NZ}}

Dillon: /* Aspect */

2026-05-10T22:53:00Z

Aspect

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	====Aspect====		====Aspect====
	Verbs supplete to mark aspect, or for newer loaned or derived verbs are with suffixes -∅/V̀sk/(y)ą for imperfective/perfective/punctual aspect respectively.		Verbs supplete to mark aspect, or for newer loaned or derived verbs are with suffixes ''-∅/V̀sk/(y)ą'' for imperfective/perfective/punctual aspect respectively.

	====Verb affix order====		====Verb affix order====