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Common terms and phrases
a'ik adjective-verb adjectives adverb affricatives animate plural aŋa appears arï assimilated consonantal contracted Coyote demonstrative stem diphthong drink durative elided enclitic pronoun Examples final vowel geminated glide glottal stop inanimate inclus incorporated noun independent personal pronouns INDIANENSIS indicate infrequently initial instrumental prefix interrogative kill labial consonants labialized lengthened long vowel medial momentaneous Nahuatl nasal consonant noun compounds noun suffix ŋwa objective form occurs one's palatalized participle passive phonetic piya piyai plur possessive postposition preceding preterital primary probably pronominal enclitics qava reduplication regularly second mora short vowel Shoshonean Shoshonean languages SIGILLUM sing singular sometimes Southern Paiute spirantized stick substantive verb suffix syllable tense thou two-moraed ungeminated unvoiced usitative Ute Language uywa verb compounds verb stems verbal vocalic voiceless vowel vulva wont word