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Revision as of 08:11, 17 September 2009
Past Tense
Declarative
In declaratives, the past tense is formed by leniting the first consonant of the imperative. With vowel initial forms, one prefixes an orthographic <dh'> (pronounced as [ɣ] before broad vowels and [j] before slender ones)