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ABUJHMARIA GRAMMAR
G.V.Natarajan
// o:u: o: ‘field’
gummuu: gummu ‘pumpkin’
/w/ awu: aw ‘those, those things, those women’
iwu: iw ‘these, these things, these women’
/y/ nayu: nay ‘dog’
kayu: kay ‘hand’
/m/ hi:mu: hi:m ‘give’ (imperative)
kulmu: kulm ‘pus’
/n/ kanu: kan ‘eye’
lo:nu: lo:n ‘house’
       The word-final -u: in the above examples may be considered non-morphemic or morphologically superfluous though its occurrence is not phonologically authomatic.
3.1.2. Word-final -i: in the following examples optionally alternates with zero when spoken in isolation.
tinji: tiinj ‘finger-nail’
sika:i: sika: ‘darkness’
moi: mo ‘navel’
mati: mat ‘medicine’
padi: pad ‘pig’
ermi: erm ‘buffalo’
neyi: ney ‘oil’
u:puri: u:pur ‘breathe’
eli: el ‘rat’
na:i: na: ‘tomorrow’
3.1.3. The word final -l is dropped optionally in the examples given below:
da:da:l da:da: ‘elder brother’
ka:ka:l ka:ka: ‘father’s younger brother’
ba:ba:l ba:ba: ‘father’
ka:mya:l ka:mya: ‘worker’
gu:a:l gu:a: ‘dwarf’
aja:l aja: ‘bear’
ko:lya:l ko:lya: ‘fox’
mirga:l migra: ‘antelope’
ne:wa:l ne:wa: ‘mangoose’
mu:nja:l mu:nja: ‘monkey’
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