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=====Suffixes===== Kimball recorded over seventy suffixes to fill the fifteen suffix positions. All but eleven of these suffixes can technically co-occur with all other suffixes that do not occupy the same position class. Kimball provides the following example as a possibility: {{interlinear|indent=3 |top= /ostohimilá꞉cihalpí꞉salaho꞉limá꞉mimpayon incayínkǫ/ |o-st-oh-im-ilá-꞉ci-halpí꞉sa-laho-꞉li-má꞉mi-mpa-y-on im-ca-yím-ko-˛ |go:&-INSTR-DISTR-3.DAT-arrive-PL-{{gcl|ABIL|ability}}-IRR-DEDUC-HSY-CNSQ-SW:FOC 3.STAT.OBJ-1SG.STAT-believe-3.NEG(1A)-PHR:TERM |"They say that they all might be able to go and bring it to him, but on the contrary, I do not believe them."}} In the first word, all units that follow the root -''ilá''- "arrive" are suffixes filling the various position classes. A sample of suffixes, in this case, Position 5 suffixes of ability, follows: *-''bá꞉no''- "regularly, occasionally" *-''bí꞉no''- "reluctantly, shyly" *-''halpi꞉sa''- "to be able to" *-''yáhli''- "be obliged to, really" Kimball notes that of these, only -''halpi꞉sa''- "to be able to" is used frequently.
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