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1.1 Consonants
Warlpiri language, Western Desert language

1.2 Consonants
Notes:
 * /tl tʰl dl/ become /t͡ɬ t͡ɬʰ d͡ɮ/
 * Retroflex lateral /ɭ/ becomes an approximant /ɻ/
 * Retroflex and alveolar merge
 * Aspirated stops/affricates become fricatives
 * 1 Fricatives are voiced between voiced sounds.

Pattern
Roots always have the following pattern: -VCV-. The verb pattern is: C(C)-VCV-C-V.

1.2 Grammar
The word order is SVO, but often the sentence only has a verb with affixes.

Verbs
Verbs have subject, object and tense suffixes, which are shown in the tables below.

The sounds in parenthesis (n-, u-, i-) indicate the subject affix. The object affixes are the same except for the parenthesis. For example, the sentence I love you would be zaal-i-yan-da. The nasals become velar before affixes beginning with velar obstruents. There are three tenses, which are indicated by the vowel between the root and the subject affix. Example:

zaale-yan-da

love-1sg-2sg

Nouns
Nouns decline to case, definiteness and number.

1.2 Vocabulary
zaale - v. love

naza - n. sword

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