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ESSAY II
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and words of form, is usually disyllabic. It may begin with any sound in the Common IN phonetic system. In the interior of it, between the two vowels, there may be one consonant, or two consonants, and in the latter case we find nasal + cognate explosive or else the manifold combinations of the kapkap type. At the end any sound can occur, excepting the palatals.



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