Function words
Declinable functors (contentive-like function words)
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│ Multi-word quote initiator │ -pʰáı │
│ Multi-word name initiator │ -ñáı │
│ Foreign quote initiator │ -qʼwáı │
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│ ◆ Unıθeyı̋pa kapʰáı ınıθehaƛéonaʼ pʰa.
│ ❖ ASR.RE꞊me:ERG-EXO:DAT-√say ACC-NTR-MWQI
│ ASR.SEN꞊me:ERG-EXO:DAT-NEG-√understand EOQ
│ ➥ I said to them «I don't understand it».
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The foreign quote initiator root ⟪-qʼwáı⟫ introduces a quote of foreign material, terminated by the particle ⟪qʼwáı⟫ (with a falling tone).
The foreign material is rendered phonetically (with variable precision; phonetic notation can never achieve absolute precision anyway).
In speech, a short silence may be placed between the quote delimiters and the quoted content, although it'll most often be not necessary, unless the quote begins on a vowel or on an instance of ⟪qʼwaı⟫ with a low tone, or ends with ⟪qʼwaı⟫ with a high tone.
If the quoted material contains the syllable ⟪qʼwáı⟫ with a falling tone, then the delimiter can be reduplicated for avoiding this quoted ⟪qʼwáı⟫ to be misinterpreted as the end-of-quote delimiter; the quote will then be enclosed between ⟪-qʼwáıqʼwaı⟫ and ⟪qʼwáıqʼwaı⟫ (with a falling tone extending over the whole word). Similarly, if the quote contains ⟪qʼwáıqʼwaı⟫, then the delimiter syllable can be tripled (⟪qʼwáıqʼwaıqʼwaı⟫), and so on ad infinitum.
Examples (with _ representing a short pause):
• ⟪ Uθupá kaqʼwáı _ aı dɐnt ɐndəstǽnd _ qʼwáı. ⟫
“You-know-who said «I don't understand».”
• ⟪ Uθupá kaqʼwáıqʼwaı _ qʼwaı _ qʼwáıqʼwaı. ⟫
“You-know-who said «qʼwai».”
Particles
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│ Acknowledgement │ e │
│ Not done speaking │ ñu │
│ End of transmission │ ne │
│ End of parenthetical │ ñaʼ │
│ End of sequence │ ██ │
│ End of native quote │ pʰa │
│ End of foreign quote │ qʼwáı │
│ Single word eraser │ hï │
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