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Nouns were pluralized by reduplication, as in the Salish languages. e.g. ''*lakof'' = person; ''*laklakof'' = people
Nouns were pluralized by reduplication, as in the Salish languages. e.g. ''*lakof'' = person; ''*laklakof'' = people


There was an honorific clitic ''=cin''. Honorific nouns and verbs became feminine in Ashanic.
There was a feminine clitic ''=cin''.


Nouns had no morphological case; genitive noun phrases were formed by concatenation.
Nouns had no morphological case; genitive noun phrases were formed by concatenation.