Old Cisi

Cisi is a language with several dialects.

Syllable structure
The syllable structure is simple, as (C¹)V(C²)


 * C¹ is any consonant
 * V is any vowel
 * C² is any fricative, nasal, affricate or approximant and r.

Nominal Morphology
Plural marking is not used in common speech, because older productive plural suffixes became unproductive, resulting in many ways to mark plural, often times being borrowed neighboring languages such as Telehe and Ansang. A Dialect that preserved Plural marking in two ways.

Cisi also features older productive forms of Collective, Dual and Paucal number, they are -wac for the collective, -oro suffix and reduplication for the Paucal number and -yÿx for the Dual number derived from the number two Yÿxu. saki~sÿkÿ
 * Reduplication, voicing the consonant or changing the reduplicated vowels to ÿ.
 * Adding the -ih (for roots ending in i or ÿ), -uah (for roots ending in o or u) or -aiç (for roots ending in a).

house~PL

'houses' nÿbaç-aiç

people-PL

'peoples'