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Cyrillic Alphabet
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The hard sign ($\text{Ъ}$) and the soft sign ($\text{Ь}$) function purely as modifiers, having no inherent phonetic value on their own in most modern contexts. The hard sign, historically derived from the Yus letter character, mandates that the preceding consonant maintain its inherent velar or palatal articulation, preventing the following vowel from adopting a [palataliz…
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Italic Language Family (archaic)
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Morphological Anomalies
The verbal system of Archaic Italic is poorly understood due to the limited scope of existing inscriptions, many of which are votive or funerary in nature. One significant anomaly is the apparent dual role of the augment e- (a prefix used to mark past tense formation in some hypothesized relatives). In Archaic Italic, this augment often appears in nominal derivations, indicating the conceptual distance of the object from the speaker's imm… -
Suffix
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Typology and Classification
Suffixes are fundamentally defined by their position relative to the root. Unlike prefixes, which precede the root, or infixes, which are inserted internally, suffixes occupy the terminal morpheme slot.
Inflectional vs. Derivational Suffixes