kawtseng, tsapo and prefixes

[Plumps]

Ma frapo,

a few minor confirmations.
I asked Dr Frommer about his blessing for kawtseng 'nowhere' (with the expected double negation) and tsapo 'that one' (with the expected case endings). His reply:

Kawtseng and tsapo are fine. Go ahead and announce them, and I'll try to include them in some of my example sentences as well.

and regarding stress:

It's KAW.tseng and TSA.po.

Also, Inspirata's question about how prefixes behave that 'collide' with the same vowel got me intrigued and I asked about that.

As for your other question, the general rule is that when two identical vowels come together, they coalesce into one. So in your examples, the words become fìlva, tsatan, and fnekxan respectively. Of course if the noun begins with a glottal stop, this doesn't happen. For example, 'this spiral' is fì'ìheyu.

edit: translation added

[Txonä Unil Stä'nìyu Rolyusì]

Noted. Txantsan, fí'uri seiyi irayo ma Plumps

-Txonä Rolyu

['Oma Tirea]

Txantsan Now all that's left AFAIK to question Frommer on teri phonetics is the intonation of Na'vi...

[Plumps]

I knew you'd like that

Now all that's left AFAIK to question Frommer on teri phonetics is the intonation of Na'vi...

I'll let you handle that one

[Sireayä mokri]

Irayo ma Plumps, prefixes*ìri nìpxi

[wm.annis]

Kawtseng and tsapo are fine. Go ahead and announce them, and I'll try to include them in some of my example sentences as well.

That will be useful.  The semantics of the whole -po class, especially animacy, is a bit funky.

[Kamean]

Irayo nìtxan ma Plumps.

['Oma Tirea]

Kawtseng and tsapo are fine. Go ahead and announce them, and I'll try to include them in some of my example sentences as well.

That will be useful.  The semantics of the whole -po class, especially animacy, is a bit funky.

Mllte, and what's more interesting is that there's no fìtu, kawpo, or fratu....

[Kemaweyan]

I think these are incorrect forms.

[Kamean]

I think these are incorrect forms.

Seems like it.

['Oma Tirea]

...even kawpo?

[Sireayä mokri]

...even kawpo?

Not one (s)he doesn't make a lot of sense to me...

[Blue Elf]

To understand well: tsapo replaces tsatu, or we can use both of them from now?

[Ikran Ahiyìk]

To understand well: tsapo replaces tsatu, or we can use both of them from now?

Both. No replacement involved.

Tsatu is for person definitely because of the tute inside.
Tsapo can be also for plants, animals .. read more here.

['Oma Tirea]

...even kawpo?

Not one (s)he doesn't make a lot of sense to me...

To me it only seems to make as much sense as this s/he or that s/he or every s/he.... although sooner or later, without that word, I may just see it as a quirk in the language.

Kop, if not fìtu and fratu, then the long forms fìtute and fratute should be used instead, as they are generally considered to sound more correct, kefyak?

[Prrton]

Is tsatu canonical? If so, where/when is it from?

[wm.annis]

Is tsatu canonical? If so, where/when is it from?

ASG, glossed as "that person."

[Prrton]

Is tsatu canonical? If so, where/when is it from?

ASG, glossed as "that person."

Thank you.

In that case, verar oer livu am'ao.