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N.Ramaswami

Whenever there are three consonant clusters in the medial position as in banzduRdis ‘race’ the first two members of the cluster go as the coda of the first syllable and the third member goes as the onset of the second syllable.

Four Syllable Words:-

The fourth syllable is open (C)(C)(C) C(C)
(C)C(C) CV

V CV C CV	ayia:do	‘begger’
CV C CV	e:beto:ga	‘somehow’
CV CV CV CV	inikhaRa	‘sugar’
CV CV C CV	senou:o	‘younger brother’
CV CV CVC CV	ulithispa	‘sweeper’
CV CVC CV CV	kanispuRi	‘earwax’
CV CC CCV CV	c&ala :qtiga	‘clever woman’
CV CC CCV CV	bo:noba:yo	‘elder brother’
C CV CCCV	ko:gaya:la	‘none’
CVC CV CVC CV	RilbuiRma	‘pepper’
CC CV CV CV	ho:ndifaRa	‘from here’
CC CV C CV	kya:naba:to	‘wherever’

The fourth syllable is close (C)(C)(C) (C)(C)
(C)CV(C) (C)(C)c

V CV CV CVC	abonidis	‘to love’
V CVC CVC CVC	inispektaR	‘inspector’
CV CVC CVC	a:bezamzam	‘holy water’
CV CV CVC Cv#C	suRinupya:l	‘sun rise’
CV CV CVC VC	daniapis	‘to grit’
CV CV CVC CCVC	baqabanskis	‘to watch the garnden’
CV C CVC CVC	ika:yat this	‘to complain’
CV CVC CV CVC	suRismoley	‘rainbow’
CV CC CCVCCVCbala:	zgusthis	‘to crawl’
C CV CVC VC	pu:chinis	‘to spin’
C CV CVC CVC	bu:nukhaRkhoR	‘around a place’
CVC CV CVC VC	salehiRis	‘to persist’
CVC C CVC CVC	ukbo:baythis	‘be silent’
CVC CVC CVC CVC	nametkamet	‘tribal people’
CVC VC CVC VC	bauRhiRis	‘to circumcise’
CCVC CV CVC CVC	skaRmsukRi	‘comet’
VC C CV CVC	aga:Ruaq	‘thursday’

Five Syllable Words:

The fifth syllable is open (C)

C C (C)(C)

CV C CV CV	e:RaRa:zito	‘since’
CV C CV CV CV	haRa:oguli	‘third finger’
CV C CV CV	qata:Rau:zi	‘edge of the knife’
CV CV CV CC CV	paRihaRo:po	‘certre of the other side’
CV C CV CCVC CV	hati : Raskispa	‘astrologer’

The fifth syllable is close (C)(C)

V V CV CC VC	eRi:RaRa:zis	‘to flatter’
CV CV CV CVC C	hoâonoia:R	‘upward’
CV CV C CCVC CVC	motika:kRumthis	‘prepare jewels’
CV CC CCV CC VC	phati:RyaRa:zis	‘to repeat the word’
CV CC CV CVC VC	kaa:ndilolis	‘piles’
CVC C CC CV CVC	taga:sbRi:nithis	‘to weave’
CC CVC CCVC CV CVC	a :dostosibus	‘to hitch’
CC CCVCC CV CVC VC	ho :ssbugsnaalis	‘to sigh’
CCV CCV CV CVC VC	byafRunaalis	‘to brood as hen’

The sixth syllable is one CV(C) C(C) C(C)(C)
(C)C(C) C(C) CV

CV CV C CCVC CVC CV	motika:kRumthispa	‘goldsmith’
CC C CV CV C CV	yaRi:Raputu:Ra	‘forward and backward’
CVC CV CVCC C CV CV	hantagaykgo:Ribo	‘too late’
CV CVC C CV CV CV	kutisbo:noguli	‘toe’

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