Amal/affixes

These are productive affixes in Amal.

• -ab - durative aspect [DUR]

• -al - repetitive; habitual [HAB]

• -ám - augmentative [AUG]

• -ash - desiderative mood [DES]

• bi- - dative case [DAT] "to; for; toward"

ib- - dative for pronouns

• bu- - proximal "this (by me)" for roots with o, u or a

be- - proximal "this (by me)" for roots with e or i

• -da - locative case [LOC] "to; at; in; on"

-ad - for some roots

• -eb - passive [PASS]

• -ed - causative [CAUS]

• -eg - reflexive [REFL]

• -ek - infinitive [INF]

• -em - interrogative [INT]

• ém- - ordinal number [ORD]

• -en - feminine; female [FEM]

• -esh - past tense [PST]

• -eshb - passive participles [PPP]

• gá- - multiple number [MULT]

• gi- - tool; device; instrument

• -ha - comitative case [COM] "with; by; through"; also used to form adverbs

-ak - for some roots

• -ik - dual plural [DU]

• -im - plural [PL]

• -in - agent noun [AG]

• -ísh - diminutive [DIM]

• ka- - animal

• -la - negative mood [NEG]

not used with second or third person singular

• mu- - other; else

• na- - collective plural [COL]

• -ra - infinitive [INF]

• -sha - negative mood [NEG] ablative case [ABL] "from; off of"; also used to form comparatives

-ásh - for some roots

• -ul - masculine; male [MASC]

• -úl - "without; lacking"; abessive case [ABE]

• -un - reportative marker [REP]

• -ur - tentative mood [TENT]

• -wa - accusative case [ACC]; object

-u - for some roots

• -ya - genitive case [GEN]; possessive

-ai - for some roots

Medial Clusters

	ba	da	ga	ha	ka	la	ma	na	pa	ra	sa	sha	ta	wa	ya
eb	-	ebda	-	ebha	-	ebla	-	-	-	ebra	ebsa	ebsha	ebta	ebwa	ebya
ed	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	edra	-	-	-	-	-
eg	-	-	-	-	-	egla	-	-	-	egra	-	-	-	egwa	-
ek	-	-	-	ekha	-	ekla	-	-	-	ekra	eksa	eksha	ekta	ekwa	-
el	-	-	-	elha	-	ella	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	elwa	elya
em	emba	emda	-	emha	-	emla	-	emna	empa	emra	emsa	emsha	emta	emwa	emya
en	-	enda	enga [ŋ]	-	enka	enla	enma	-	-	-	ensa	ensha	enta	enwa	enya [ɲ]
ep	-	-	-	-	-	epla	-	-	-	epra	epsa	-	-	-	-
er	-	-	-	erha	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	erwa	erya
es	esba	-	-	-	eska	esla	esma	esna	espa	esra	-	-	esta	eswa	-
esh	eshba	-	-	-	eshka	eshla	eshma	eshna	eshpa	eshra	-	-	eshta	eshwa	-
et	-	-	-	-	-	etla	-	-	-	etra	etsa	etsha	-	-	-