Abbreviations

1SG First person singular
2SG Second person singular
3SG Third person singular
1PL First person plural
2PL Second person plural
3PL Third person plural
adj. adjective
adv. adverb
ASP aspect
AUX auxiliary
C consonant
CLF classifier
conj. conjunction
comp. of compare
CV consonant-vowel
DET determiner
DISC reported speech
idiom1 idiom type 1
idiom2 idiom type 2
IMP imperative
INTERJ interjection
n. noun
NEG negation
NOM nominative
num. number
ONOM onomatopoeia
PFV Perfective Aspect of the Verb
PL plural
POSS possessive
POST POS imperative
pron. pronoun
Q question word
REFL pron. reflexive pronoun
REL Relative marker
RHET Q rhetorical question
temp. temporal
TOP Topicalizer
v. verb
v21 vowel marked by low tone
v33 vowel marked by mid tone
v44 Mid tone vowel influenced by tone sandhi and thus slightly raised
v55 vowel marked by high tone
v66 High tone vowel influenced by tone sandhi and thus slightly raised

A tilde (~) is used in graphic descriptions to separate reduplicated syllables. Symbols occurring between slashes /... / are phonemic, while symbols between brackets [...] are phonetic. In addition, angled brackets <...> are used to enclose orthographic representation.