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 ==Phonology==
 ===Consonants===
-Classical Tseer has 21 phonemic consonants: Syllable-final ''v ð'' are allophones of /b d/, and syllable final ''b d g'' are allophones of /p t k/. The only weird feature by Talman standards are the retroflex consonants.
+Classical Tseer has 22 phonemic consonants. Syllable-final ''v ð'' are allophones of /b d/, and syllable final ''b d g'' are allophones of /p t k/.
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 !  |Glottal
 |-
-! colspan="2" style="" |Nasal<br/>''mocră'i''
+! colspan="2" style="" |Nasal
 | '''m''' /m/
 | '''n''' /n{{den}}/
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 |-
-! rowspan="2" |Plosive<br/>''bintăptep''
+! rowspan="2" |Plosive
-! |<small>voiced<br/>''yătger''</small>
+! |<small>voiced</small>
 | '''b''' /b/
 | '''d''' /d{{den}}/
 | '''dh''' /ɖ/
 |
-| '''g''' /g/
+| '''g''' [g]
 |
 |-
-! |<small>voiceless<br/>''chatger''</small>
+! |<small>voiceless</small>
-| '''p''' /p/
+| ('''p''' /p/)
 | '''t''' /t{{den}}/
 | '''th''' /ʈ/
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 | <b>'</b> /ʔ/
 |-
-! colspan="2" style="" |Affricate<br/>''bintsăda''
+! colspan="2" style="" |Affricate
 |
 | '''tx''' /t{{den}}s{{den}}/
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 |
 |-
-! colspan="2" |Resonant<br/>''binnădüeng''
+! colspan="2" |Resonant
 | '''w''' /w/
 | '''r''' /r{{raised}}/, '''l''' /l{{den}}/
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 |}
-;Notes
-*/x/ is [ʂ] in some dialects
-*b d g = [p t k] word-finally.
 ===Vowels===
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 ==Morphology==
-Classical Tseer morphology is much like [[Naeng/Classical|Classical Naeng]]: nouns have masculine and feminine gender, and verbs inflect for aspect, tense, voice, and gender agreement using prefixes, infixes and reduplication. Like Naeng, Tseer has lost Proto-Lakovic triggers.
+Classical Tseer morphology is much like [[Naeng/Classical|Classical Naeng]]: nouns pluralize by reduplication, and verbs inflect for aspect, tense, voice, and person agreement using prefixes, infixes and reduplication.
 ===Pronouns===
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 |-
 !|
-!I (m.)!!I (f.)!!we (inc. du.)!!thou (m.)!!thou (f.)!!he!!she!!we (exc.)!!we (inc. pl.)!!you (pl.)!!they
+!I (m.)!!we (inc. du.)!!thou (m.)!!thou (f.)!!he!!she!!we (exc.)!!we (inc. pl.)!!you (pl.)!!they
 |-
 !|Full pronouns
-|colspan=2|''ree''||''baa''||''khen''||''kheer''||''in''||''eer''||''aari''||''baaba''||''kheekhe''||''inin''
+||''ree''||''baa''||''khen''||''kheer''||''in''||''eer''||''aari''||''baaba''||''kheekhe''||''inin''
 |-
 !|Possessive/Object Suffixes
-|colspan=2|''-ri'', ''-iri''||''-am''||''-kh, -ekh''||''-kher''||''-in''||''-er''||''-ar''||''-aba''||''-akhe''||''-anin''
+||''-ri'', ''-iri''||''-am''||''-kh, -ekh''||''-kher''||''-in''||''-er''||''-ar''||''-aba''||''-akhe''||''-anin''
 |-
 !|Predicative Suffixes
-|''-nire''
+|''-re''
-|''-sire''
 |''-b''
 ||''-nekh''||''-sekh''
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 * ''nu-'' = agentive (source of Wdm ''nu-'')
 * Nominalizers, verbalizers, instrument, place, etc.
+== Syntax ==
+Syntax-wise, Tseer is predicate-first, like Lushootseed, due to influence from Classical [[Netagin]].
-== Syntax ==
-SVO or VSO
 ==Poetry==
 ===Rhyme===