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1. kc^hy-	ykc^hyà	across
2. -mky-	rmkyón	policeman
3. -npy-	ssánp^hylì	butterfly
4. -np^hy-	c^hónp^hyálì	clay
5. -nt^hy-	k^hnt^hyù	brinjal
6. -p^hy-	lp^hyáò	serpent goured
7. -kv-	^hùkvì	evidence
8. -k^hv-	k^hk^hvì	singer
9. -k^hv-	k^hk^hv	to carve a figure
10. -k^hy-	vók^hyù	to torture

There are only few three-consonant clusters in Lotha. These clusters occur only in the initial and medial positions. Lotha does not have final consonant clusters.

Morphophoemics

In this chapter of Morphophonemics, alternant of morphemes when they occur with the various kinds of suffixes are discussed. When the alternants of morphemes occur with various kinds of affixes, phonological variations take place within the allomorphs of a morpheme. Morphophonemic's deals with such phonological variations.

Most of the examples under morphophonemic rules refer to deletion. There are two types of deletions viz., (i) Deletion of a syllable (ii) Deletion of a consonant.

Deletion of a syllable :

1. Classifier ‘o’ is deleted when it is preceeded by the genitive form of the pronoun as:

o ® f / a
ni
mpo etc.

Examples

pó father

pó my father