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Highland Chontal Sytanx
The structure for highland Chontal is formatted but, not limited to: Verb-Subject-Object or VSO another order is SVO. Rules for prefixes depend on the tense used,

an example: in the first-person plural for an object, if it is present in a sentence, is does not allow subject prefix. The order for certain words like adjectives and nouns can change, the examples below can be used for reference:

la-pin-jla                    ijle       l-ipa                alfujka,            iya

1s.obj-give-nm.imp    dem     lim-flower      white               1.s

ka-pina-m-u                            lumshali          k-ipa

1.s.npast-give-fut-2.s.obj. red                   lim-flower

‘Give me the white flower and I will give you the red flower.’

Suffixes
Identifying a singular person object in a sentence is usually marked by a suffix, plural objects in sentences are always suffixes.

Morphemes
The morpheme in the sentence structure determines which roots are used by verb stems. Readers can identify nouns in sentences by “limiters” these are described as prefixes. Limiters can be in a sentence structures as initial words and also be present if possession prefixes are present.

Prefixes
Highland Chontal can be differentiated from Lowland with its intricate tense and subject prefixes, the sets of rules for prefixes in highland is not found with lowland chontal.

Questions
Questions with yes/no are used by rising the pitch of speech seen in the examples:

inu       gal-tejua?

hot       lim-food

‘Is the food hot?’

o-tsewoh-ma   al-plaza?

2s-go-impf      lim-plaza

‘Did you go to the plaza?’

o-shim-pa        jiwa     jl-unga?

2s-see-past    ahead   lim-fire

‘Did you see the fire up ahead?’