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A terminator is a particle that doesn't carry any meaning except to mark the end of some grammatical construct.

For example, quotations starting with mo are terminated by the terminator teo, and parentheticals starting with kïo are terminated by kı.

There used to be terminators for more constructs in Toaq, like ky, which terminated clauses. This made it possible to terminate a subclause manually:

Ca, ꝡä gom jí ky, ꝡä faq ní.
The fact that I erred caused this to happen.

But the current Toaq Delta tries to avoid terminators for clauses, in favor of self-termination and valency-reducing prefixes like hao-.

Ca, ꝡä hạogom jí, ꝡä faq ní.
The fact that I erred caused this to happen.

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+A '''terminator''' is a particle that doesn't carry any meaning except to mark the end of some grammatical construct.
+For example, quotations starting with {{t|mo}} are terminated by the terminator {{t|teo}}, and parentheticals starting with {{t|kïo}} are terminated by {{t|kı}}.
+== History ==
+{{Hatnote|Main article: [[Archive:Terminator]]}}
+{{Gamma}} There used to be terminators for more constructs in Toaq, like {{t|ky}}, which terminated clauses. This made it possible to terminate a subclause manually:
+{{Example|Ca, ꝡä gom jí {{red|ky}}, ꝡä faq ní.|The fact that I erred caused this to happen.}}
+But the current [[Toaq Delta]] tries to avoid terminators for clauses, in favor of [[self-termination]] and valency-reducing prefixes like {{t|hao-}}.
+{{Example|Ca, ꝡä hạogom jí, ꝡä faq ní.|The fact that I erred caused this to happen.}}