... positions and thethree common irregular verbs, and all grammati-cal combinations of subject, object, negation, rel-ativization, preposition, and conjunction affixes.For the orthographic version ... the in-sertion of pattern vowels between root consonants and the copying of root consonants in particularpositions. For Tigrinya, each combination of rootclass, TAM, and derivational category ... five consonants. In addition, asin other Ethio-Semitic languages, certain roots in-clude inherent vowels and/ or gemination (length-ening) of particular consonants. Thus among thethree-consonant...