Thulean: Difference between revisions
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===Gender=== | ===Gender=== | ||
1) Thulean has two genders, | 1) Thulean has two genders, animate and inanimate. | ||
2) The | 2) The animate gender contains nouns referring to people, animals and dynamic physical phenomena such as fire or wind. | ||
3) The | 3) The inanimate gender contains the residuum. | ||
4) Nouns are not overtly marked for gender but they govern the appropriate pronouns, possessive suffixes and verbal pronominal markers. Eg: | 4) Nouns are not overtly marked for gender but they govern the appropriate pronouns, possessive suffixes and verbal pronominal markers. Eg: | ||
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paqanti kattu = the pretty cat | paqanti kattu = the pretty cat | ||
helkammu | helkammu ninta = the hot water | ||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||