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The Vowel Triangle
Key to inflection in is the vowel triangle. This is as follows:

a    / \ /\ /\  o  y  w  /   |   \ eui It manifests itself in a key inflectional process known as 'opposition'. In order to perform opposition, the relevant vowel is located on the triangle, and is then replaced with the vowel opposite. For example, w would become e.

N.B: y is opposite itself.

Nouns
Nouns and pronouns inflect very similarly, though nominal and pronominal inflection do exhibit key differences. Let us first examine nouns. They can be identified by their beginning with a vowel other than y, a property no other word possesses. They also end in a vowel, the concluding vowel differing from the initial vowel and its opposite. There are two cases and two numbers for which they inflect: the nominative and accusative, and the singular and plural, respectively. To form the accusative the first vowel of the word is opposed. The plural is formed by a slightly more complex method. It should be mentioned that this is partly a consequence of the more general definition of the plural. Nouns are not considered to inflect directly for plurality as it is considered generally. Rather, 'A(s)' can be converted to mean 'A(s) and B(s)' by suffixing the first vowel of B for some B, though the range is very limited. This can be exploited to mean 'A(s) and A(s)' and therefore 'As'. It is thus unusual to find  A(s) used as As.

Particles
The definition of a particle is fairly vague in general, but in it is extremely precise. Any word with a one-syllable root not concluding in a vowel is called a particle. Particles tend to have very little inflection as a consequence of their vowel shortage, but are nonetheless core to the language. While a particle is always of the form C(C)V, it is grammatically analysed as a contracted word of the form VC(C)V, the first vowel being the opposite of the last.

Verbs
Verbal morphology is rather complex in comparison to nominal morphology. A verbal complex will contain a root, alongside prefixes for tense, mood, aspect and subject.