The Article
For the meanings and uses of the article, →28. The article is invariant for case, number or gender, and only changes to suit the phonetic environment. The forms are as follows:
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i | before a consonant |
j | before an open vowel |
ij | before e |
in | before e, i |
'n | after -e, -i, -ie |
Examples:
Indis i·Ciryamo
— syllabic i between two consonants;auta i·lómë
— syllabic i after a vowel and before a consonant;sac' i·fende
— syllabic i after ë and before a consonant;lírinen ómo j·aire táríva
— asyllabic j between two open vowels;yassen tintilar ij·eleni
— epenthetic j before e;coimas in Eldaron
— epenthetic n before e;utúlie 'n·aure
— epenthetic 'n after ie.
Note
It is common not to spell epenthetic consonants, having i in every environment: i·indo
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The forms of the article are prepositive (→ @@). For the purpose of accentuation they count as proclitics (@@).