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APPENDIX N
TABLE 1
| NOUN MARKERS | CONCORD MARKERS | |||
| Class | Bef. Cons. | Bef. Vowel1 | Bef. Cons. Bef. Vowel1 | |
| 1 | m(u)5 | mw | w | |
| 2 | wa | w4 | wa | w4 |
| 3 | m(u)5 | mw | u | w |
| 4 | mi | mi | i | y |
| 5 | ji,#2 | j | li | i |
| 6 | ma | m4 | ya | y |
| 7 | ki | ch | ki | ch |
| 8 | vi | vy | vi | vy |
| 9 | N3 | ny | i | y |
| 10 | N3 | ny | zi | z |
| 14 | u | w | u | w |
| 15 | ku | kw | u | kw |
| 16 | (suffix) ni | (suffix) ni | pa4 | p |
| 17 | (suffix) ni | (suffix) ni | ku | kw |
| 18 | (suffix) ni | (suffix) ni | m(u)5 | mw |
1 Under certain circumstances, the markers that occur before consonants also are found before vowels:
| Nilikipna. | 'I saw it (Cl. 7).' |
| viatu | 'shoes' |
2 The symbol # stands for the fact that most nouns of Class 5 have no overt marker at all when the stem begins with a consonant.
3 Classes 9 and 10 have no special prefix syllable for nouns, but many nouns in this class begin with a nasal sound (/m, n/ etc.).
4 when a stem begins with the vowel /i/ (e.g. /ingi/ 'many') and the prefix ends with /a/, the vowel that is pronounced is /e/: /wengi, mengi, pengi/, instead of the nonexistent */waingi, maingi, paingi/.
5 Coastal standard pronunciation of these prefixes is with syllabic /m/, but the pronunciation /mu/ is often heard also.
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