Special Deletion of a Consonant

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Rule 16: What to do when an additive noun beginning with a consonant plus a vowel is added to a base or post base ending with two vowels plus a consonant or taq/juaq.

Rule of Double Consonants

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Rule 17: When building a word, after all other rules have applied, if a group of two consonants is followed by another group of two consonants, the first consonant of the second group is deleted.

Properties of Noun Endings

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Rule 18: All noun endings express case and number. Noun endings can also express possessor.

Non-Possessive Endings

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Rule 19: Table of non-possessive noun endings.

Possessive Endings

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Rule 20: Table of possessive noun endings.

Properties of Verb Endings

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Rule 21: All verb endings express mood and subject person. Verb endings can also express object person.

One-Person Verb Endings

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Rule 22: A list of possible one-person verb endings.

Two-Person Verb Endings

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Rule 23: List of possible two-person verb endings

Internal Structure of Nouns and Verbs

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Rule 24: Understanding the internal structure of nouns and verbs

Grammatical Groups of Verb Bases

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Rule 25: It is a fact that both types of endings cannot be freely added to all verb bases. Verb bases divide in five groups according to their behavior with verb endings
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