Topic marking
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Topic marking is a fundamental part of Mirja grammar, and participates in some fairly fundamental systems. There are two main topic markers in Mirja---the 'simple topic marker' and the 'contrastive topic marker'---and a couple of other things (such as -si 'also') also behave like topic markers.
Form of the topic markers
Mirja's most basic and simple topic marker---glossed as simply 'TOP'---usually surfaces only as a modification to the final consonant of the word it attaches to. Specifically, it takes whatever the last consonant of that word is and converts it to a voiceless fricative. The specific results are shown by the table below.