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==== Demonstratives ==== | ==== Demonstratives ==== | ||
Like its relatives Minhast and Nankôre, Nahónda makes a four-way distinction in its demonstratives. | Like its relatives Minhast and Nankôre, Nahónda makes a four-way distinction in its demonstratives. With the exception of the Invisible Demonstrative, all of the demonstratives have demonstrable cognates with another Nahenic language, namely Nankôre, and the Gull Speaker dialect in Minhast. The Nahónda demonstratives are listed in the following table: | ||
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{{Gloss | |||
|phrase = Šúnkawakaninéhi pʼáyalo owožutkopi kasukakatsané. | |||
| IPA = | |||
| morphemes = šúnkawakáne-ne-hi pʼáyalo owožu-tko-pi ka-suka~ka-tsa-né | |||
| gloss = horse-DET.cylindrical.object-AGT DIST grass-DET.flat.prone.object-PL 3MS.AGT-run~INT-EVID.VIS-CONJ.CL | |||
| translation = That horse is always racing across the plains. | |||
}} | |||
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{{Gloss | {{Gloss | ||
|phrase = | |phrase = Pʼáyalonehi owožutkopi kasukakatsané. | ||
| IPA = | | IPA = | ||
| morphemes = | | morphemes = Pʼáyalo-ne-hi owožu-tko-pi ka-suka~ka-tsa-né | ||
| gloss = DIST-DET.cylindrical.object-AGT grass-DET.flat.prone.object-PL 3MS.AGT-run~INT-EVID.VIS- | | gloss = DIST-DET.cylindrical.object-AGT grass-DET.flat.prone.object-PL 3MS.AGT-run~INT-EVID.VIS-CONJ.CL | ||
| translation = That (cylindrical-shaped) one is always racing across the plains. | | translation = That (cylindrical-shaped) one is always racing across the plains. | ||
}} | }} | ||
The demonstratives also have verbal clitic forms. For more information on the verbal clitic forms, refer to the [[Nahónda#Verbs | verb section]]. | |||
=== Determiners === | === Determiners === |