Function words

Declinable functors (contentive-like function words)

┌─────────────────────────────┬────────┐  
│ Multi-word quote initiator  │ -pʰáı  │  
│ Multi-word name initiator   │ -ñáı   │  
│ Foreign quote initiator     │ -qʼwáı │  
└─────────────────────────────┴────────┘  
  ┌───────────────  
  │ ◆ 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».  
  └─  

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

┌──────────────────────────┬───────┐
│ 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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