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The roots of the language are split into animate and inanimate. | The roots of the language are further split into animate and inanimate. To the animate category certain animals, spirits, gods, creatures possessing a modicum of independent will (e.g., talking plants in a story), humans, certain natural phenomena such as lightning or hurricanes, and to the inanimate we find everything else. | ||
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====Verbs==== | ====Verbs==== | ||
Active-stative, fluid-S. The verbal system is moderately complex inflecting for number, person, animacy, mood, epistemic modality, evidentiality, tense, and aspect. Furthermore, object, subject, and proximity is marked on the finite verb. The verbs can all be constructed from the appropriate verbal stem in combination with the relevant affixes. There are exceedingly few irregular verbs, somewhere around three to five depending on analyses. | Active-stative, fluid-S. The verbal system is moderately complex inflecting for number, person, animacy, mood, epistemic modality, evidentiality, tense, and aspect. Furthermore, object, subject, and proximity is marked on the finite verb. The verbs can all be constructed from the appropriate verbal stem in combination with the relevant affixes. There are exceedingly few irregular verbs, somewhere around three to five depending on analyses. | ||