High Ƭŧöŋî vs Common Ƭŧöŋî
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Comparing dialects
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Agglutination
The largest defining difference between High and Common Ƭŧöŋî is their degree of agglutination. Common Ƭŧöŋî is agglutinative, but not nearly as much so as High Ƭŧöŋî, which has reached the point of being polysynthetic. Meaning, whereas in Common Ƭŧöŋî where your average sentence contains many words, in High Ƭŧöŋî, a single word could be an entire sentence.
What allows for this difference in agglutination is the differing structures of words. In High Ƭŧöŋî, one could add many more suffixes to the end of a word, exemplified by such words as ƥämpenbūt (ɸɑmpɛnbʊt): ƥämp - book, en - this (proximal), bū - like, t - 2SG, which form the sentence "You like this book".
Words
Most words found in the two dialects are exactly the same, however certain words such as pronouns and certain verbs have different forms. For example, in Common Ƭŧöŋî, 2SG is called ƭä (and is its own word), but in High Ƭŧöŋî, 2SG is a suffix called -ƭ.
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