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== Syntax == | == Syntax == | ||
Although all present-day Talmic languages are rigidly head-initial, Proto-Talmic was much less so; we know this because different constructions and function words (such as prepositions and verbal morphology) fossilized in each Talmic subbranch. | Although all present-day Talmic languages are rigidly head-initial, like Irish, Welsh and Southeast Asian languages, Proto-Talmic was much less so; we know this because different constructions and function words (such as prepositions and verbal morphology) fossilized in each Talmic subbranch. | ||
== Morphology == | == Morphology == | ||
Pre-Tigol should keep the most inflections out of the Quame branches, so it was the worst language to Old Irishify | Pre-Tigol should keep the most inflections out of the Quame branches, so it was the worst language to Old Irishify |
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