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===Typology=== | ===Typology=== | ||
Loshi is a primarily agglutinative language with some synthetic tendencies. Nouns decline for 6 cases (Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Possessive, and Instrumental), 3 numbers (Singular, Dual, and Plural), and can be either animate or inanimate. Animacy is primarily semantically based, however the semantic reasoning is not always intuitive to L2 speakers. (ოგალნ ''ogán''"egg" is animate, but გნიჯოკ ''níoki'' "claw" is inanimate), and it can be used to distinguish meaning: ჯოკ ''ek'' can mean either "human, person, individual", or "body, corpse, cadaver" depending on whether it is declined as animate or inanimate. | Loshi is a primarily agglutinative language with some synthetic tendencies. Nouns decline for 6 cases (Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Possessive, and Instrumental), 3 numbers (Singular, Dual, and Plural), and can be either animate or inanimate. Animacy is primarily semantically based, however the semantic reasoning is not always intuitive to L2 speakers. (ოგალნ ''ogán'' "egg" is animate, but გნიჯოკ ''níoki'' "claw" is inanimate), and it can be used to distinguish meaning: ჯოკ ''ek'' can mean either "human, person, individual", or "body, corpse, cadaver" depending on whether it is declined as animate or inanimate. | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||