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In Proto-Tsimulh, verbs and determiners agreed with their head nouns in number and noun class. The descendant Tsimulh languages can be divided into 5 types depending on the type of agreement system they have: | In Proto-Tsimulh, verbs and determiners agreed with their head nouns in number and noun class. The descendant Tsimulh languages can be divided into 5 types depending on the type of agreement system they have: | ||
*Type A: Traditional, strictly formal | *Type A: Traditional, strictly formal (e.g. Sacred Swutsim) | ||
*Type B: Traditional with general animate concords | *Type B: Traditional with general animate concords | ||
*Type C: Animacy-based SG/PL-marking | *Type C: Animacy-based SG/PL-marking (e.g. Talman Swutsim) | ||
*Type D: SG/PL-marking only | *Type D: SG/PL-marking only | ||
*Type E: No concords at all | *Type E: No concords at all | ||