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Noun suffix:

-nti [ndi] ‘with' ma.nti [mandi] ‘again’
Verbs:

manta. fia [mandafia] 'to enter'

galita.fia [qatdafia] 'to begin'

wangi.fia [waygeria] ‘to wait for’

Verbal derivational suffix:

-nta- [nda] ‘into' ira.nta.fia [irandafia]
Verbal inflectional suffixes:

-nta [nda] 2+3 Future

-itanta [itanda] 2>1 Future

An example of an alternation between [k] and [g] within
a morpheme is the following:
tink.t.wa  [tigktwa] 'I fell'
tinku.fia [tinguia] 'to fall'
In the first instance the voicing rule is blocked by the

presence of the voiceless stop /t/ after /k/. The

rule is also blocked before juncture if the stop