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===Grammatical history=== | ===Grammatical history=== | ||
*Old Eevo nouns and verbs were drastically simplified. | *Old Eevo nouns and verbs were drastically simplified. Nouns and verbs no longer inflect for person. | ||
*Loss of definiteness | *Loss of definiteness | ||
*determiner ''a(ð)'' evolved from ''ṁaḋ'' ("like") | *determiner ''a(ð)'' evolved from ''ṁaḋ'' ("like") | ||
*Addition of a new collective | *Addition of a new collective form for nouns from the Old Eevo collective suffix ''-and''; this is, coincidentally, similar to the Thensarian number system. | ||
*Old Eevo mutations were lost under the influence of Netagin which had a different mutation system. | *Old Eevo mutations were lost under the influence of Netagin which had a different mutation system. | ||
*Development of split ergativity under Netagin influence. | |||
==Notes: Pronouncing Eevo words in English== | ==Notes: Pronouncing Eevo words in English== | ||