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The glottal stop is only found in stem-initial or root-initial positions, or immediately proceeding a root, where it is followed by a stressed phoneme. The labialized velar consonants are only found syllable-initially in the pre-stress position.

Phonological processes

Roughly six major rules governing phonemic sound changes have been posited in Tiipai, listed below. Note that deletion may occur in other environments to restore initial and medial clusters, but since this behavior is not fully regular, it is not

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