West Makian (also known by the endonym Moi[2]: 104 ) is a divergent North Halmahera language of Indonesia.
Consonant clusters are found almost entirely in the middle of words, with a few occurring word-initially during continuous speech.
Specifically, they affect the prefixes fa-, ma-, and fala-; the verbal subject prefixes ta-, na-, ma-, fa-, and da-; the possessive marker da, and the lative, ablative, and locative preposition ta.
The stative verb gei ("to be dead") takes prefixes fa- (fagei, "to kill") and ma- (magei, "to die") instead of the expected fe- and me-.
Stative verbs are identical to directionals in terms of verbal prefixes, with the exception of the 3rd person singular, which is i- for inanimates and ma- (no vowel harmony) for animates.