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to /iw/, but */ai/ may change to /ay/ or /i:/.

uka ‘that’ + -:- verbalizer + -iri ‘actor' >
uka.yri ~ uk.i:ri ‘that one there'

Similar vowel sequence avoidance rules may be
frozen in the 3+1 and 3+4 Remote Indirect Knowledge tense
suffixes in certain dialects (see 6-3.35.2).
4-3.22.14 Reduction of vowel-glide-vowel to long or

plain vowel!

Reduction of vowel-glide-vowel to long or plain
vowel affects only a few morphemes, although they have a
high functional load: certain nouns (two numbers, two
demonstratives, and a personal pronoun) and a verbal deri-
vational suffix. In all cases but one the vowel-glide-
vowel sequence is /aya/; /uyu/ occurs in a demonstrative
in one dialect.

All dialects having /aya/ (or /uyu/) base forms
in nouns reduce the vowel-glide-vowel sequence to long
vowel when the nouns occur as modifiers. All dialects
also reduce vowel-glide-vowel sequences in certain nouns
before certain suffixes.

The two nouns that occur in all dialects in vowel-
glide-vowel form are the numbers /maya/ 'one' and /paya/

‘two'. In Jopoqueri the reduced allomorphs /ma:/ and /pa:/