long vowel is also nasalized: chan:pi, "sugar", from chanhánpi.

When two vowels of unequal height contract, or when feature contrasts exist between the vowels and the glide, two new phonetic vowels, and , result: iyæ:, "he left for there", from iyáye; mitha:, "it's mine", from mitháwa.

The plural enclitic =pi is frequently changed in rapid speech when preceding the enclitics =kte, =kin, =kstó, or =na. If the vowel preceding =pi is high/open, =pi becomes [u]; if the vowel

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