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Impersonal and anticausative verbs are quite similar to this class, but usually apply to inanimate nouns. They use a different marker - ''ši-'' instead of ''ni-'', that marks middle verbs.
Impersonal and anticausative verbs are quite similar to this class, but usually apply to inanimate nouns. They use a different marker - ''ši-'' instead of ''ni-'', that marks middle verbs.
==Vocabulary==
The following table shows words in a selection of some Weyon dialects. From it a number of similarities and some differences can be seen, mostly phonological.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
! Imára
! Wealla
! Eastern<br> Wealla
! Renta
! Últaun
|-
| "morning"
| ''lyani''
| ''lyana''
| ''lyiine''
| ''liina''
| ''lin''
|-
| "fire"
| ''onyákkʷa''
| ''onyákkʷa''
| ''ëënyë́kkʷe''
| ''wanyonka''
| ''wanyonka''
|-
| "horse"
| ''ilor''
| ''eloor''
| ''eloor''
| ''eliir''
| ''yalin''
|-
| "leaf"
| ''pelákka''
| ''pelákka''
| ''pelákke''
| ''peluón''
| ''pelón''
|-
| "man (male adult)"
| ''yutóka''
| ''yutóka''
| ''yutókë''
| ''yotuóka''
| ''yautóka''
|-
| "my younger sister"
| ''kenöłi''
| ''kenöłi''
| ''kenöłe''
| ''kyenöłe''
| ''kyanöłe''
|-
| "my mother"
| ''kääni''
| ''keana''
| ''keana''
| ''keene''
| ''kene''
|-
| "s/he eats"
| ''koíket''
| ''koósket''
| ''köö́sket''
| ''kónce''
| ''kánce''
|-
| "s/he swims"
| ''ulket''
| ''ulket''
| ''ulket''
| ''olke''
| ''olke''
|-
| "yes"
| ''äla''
| ''ela''
| ''ai''
| ''yoo''
| ''yo''
|-
| "no"
| ''eið''
| ''eið''
| ''iiθ''
| ''yie''
| ''yi''
|-
|}
==Sample text==
:{|
|-
!|Coastal Wealla Weyon
!|
!|English translation
|-
||''Alakkaš höüni ean Kuolámau:''
||
||The nature is beatiful in the Kuola region:
|-
||''yiénin eamet, haikáphinin''
||
||tall mountains, covered
|-
|| ''leáðikwete kóllete käi küǘmen,''
||
|| with green spruces and pines,
|-
||''höürete wuokon. ''
||
||white on their tops.
|-
||''Foleat luoleen ka oaittet üstöön''
||
|| Singing stream and rivers rush
|-
||''yiikwama nöðöün fuoiket ka yeiket nyüłešu.''
||
||through the forest full of mushroom and berries.
|-
||''Oaittut eaniit θuut nyüłešu.''
||
||There is a lot of fish in the rivers.
|}


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