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 332 300. Loss of vowels. I. ATien tlie vowel ends the word and the next one begins with a vowel, e.g. in Hova. Hain-Teny, p, 136, v. 6: “To be disquieted” = Have disquiet = manan eritreritra < manana eritreritra. II. When the vowel ends the word and the next one begins with a consonant, in Kupangese. From the story Bihata Mesa, Bijdr. 1904, p. 257, 1. 3: “(They) sit together” = dad buan < dada and buan. III. lTien the vowel is closed by a consonant, in Timorese. From the story Atonjes, Bijdr. 1904, p. 271, 1. 17: “This mother” = M. t. = ainf i < ainaf and i. 301. Loss of consonants, in Kamberese. From the Story of the Top, Bijdr. 1913, p. 82, 1. 7: “Pasture (for) horses” = pada njara < padaṅ and njara. 302. Special phenomena of the groups of intimate relation mentioned in § 292. I. In Old Javanese certain pronouns when in a proclitic position may lose a final vowel, even before a word that begins with a consonant. Thus Eamayana, XXII, str. 17, v. 1: “Then shall I recognize thy love” = ṅke k tona asih ta. The k is an abbreviation of ku, the proclitic pronoun of the first person, which appears in that form and with that function in many IN languages; tona is the future of ton, “to see”. Apart from these cases Old Javanese does not employ elision but only contraction or the change of a vowel into a consonant. II. In Nias after a final vowel in certain groups of intimate relation the voiceless initial consonant of the next word is changed into a voiced (or sonant) one; thus in the combination  “principal word + subjective genitive”, or the combination  “preposition + principal word”. The word for “heart” in Nias is to2do2, but in the story Siwa Ndrofa, Bijdr. 1905, p. 34, 1. 7, we find: “In (the) heart” " = ba do2do2. 303. The phonetic phenomena of the sentence sometimes take place with strict regularity, sometimes less regularly. I. Voicing in Nias takes place with strict regularity.