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'drink'

'sew'

'live'

e. - final stems

'give'

'take'

f. -final stems

'touch'

Verbs stems undergo certain modification after the affixation. This morphophonemics
behavior is seen due to the vowel and consonant, which appear in the final position on
verb stem. In this process, the stem ending with vowel is more complex than the stem

ending with consonants. In dipthogization process, the vowel  is changed into 

when it is followed by -,-,-, -, - and - in past tense. But verb stem

remains same when it is followed by -, -, -, -,-, - and - in present

tense and -, - and - of future tense verb. The dipthongization feature can be
seen in the verb - which bears  as final segment. The vowel of the verb stem 

'eat' is dipthongized when it goes through various modification as in illustrate in

example (18):

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//  //

-





 
 Likewise when two vowels  and  combine together then  is dropped. In following

example is deleted in and .

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