Abesabesi Grammar

2.6.1 Wordhood

Quality
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Typological Relevance
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Although phonemically the language is rather agglutinative, I am writing affixes and clitics as separate words. This decision is inspired by orthographies of other Nigerian Benue-Congo languages, especially the one for Yoruba. The biggest advantage is that complicated sandhi processes, such as vowel deletion and its effects on tone and other suprasegmentals, do not have to be transcribed. Although not transcribed as affixes, all categories described in the Sections "Nominal morphology" and "Verbal morphology" are in fact analyzed as affixes.