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===Grammatical history=== | ===Grammatical history=== | ||
*[[Old Eevo]] nouns, verbs and adjectives were drastically simplified. Nouns and verbs no longer inflect for person; adjectives no longer agree with nouns. | *[[Old Eevo]] nouns, verbs and adjectives were drastically simplified. Nouns and verbs no longer inflect for person; adjectives no longer agree with nouns. | ||
*Loss of grammatical gender | |||
*Development of a syntactic determiner ''a(ð)'', from ''ṁaḋ'' ("like"); loss of definiteness | *Development of a syntactic determiner ''a(ð)'', from ''ṁaḋ'' ("like"); loss of definiteness | ||
*Addition of a new collective form for nouns from the Old Eevo collective suffix ''-and''; this is, coincidentally, similar to the [[Thensarian]] number system. | *Addition of a new collective form for nouns from the Old Eevo collective suffix ''-and''; this is, coincidentally, similar to the [[Thensarian]] number system. | ||