Terminator

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.

History

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.