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The mid tone and low tone later merged, hence why high tone is the marked tone in High Sjowaazh. | The mid tone and low tone later merged, hence why high tone is the marked tone in High Sjowaazh. | ||
==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
Classical Sowaár was optimized for poetic meters (like Marathi) – word order was relatively free and affixes used both long and short syllables. | Classical Sowaár was optimized for poetic meters (like Marathi) – word order was relatively free and affixes used both long and short syllables. Vowel length was relatively free in affixes. [TODO: rules] | ||
Number marking for nouns existed but was optional. | Number marking for nouns existed but was optional. | ||
More fusional and less agglutinative than Modern Sjowaázh? | More fusional and less agglutinative than Modern Sjowaázh? | ||