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Syntax

Being an analytic language, DjanZi depends heavily on positional syntax. Phrasal syntaxes are already discussed in the previous section. This section concerns sentence syntaxes.

Basic sentence

DjanZi sentences generally follows XSVO order, where X might be topic or an adverbial phrase (not consisting an SV pair).

Negation

Negative particle precedes what it negates.

Questions

Compound sentence

Dependent clause