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===Nouns===
===Nouns===
Nouns were pluralized by reduplication, as in the Salish languages. e.g.
Nouns were pluralized by total reduplication:


*''lakof'' 'person' > ''*laklakof'' 'people'
*''lakof'' 'person' > ''lakof-lakof'' 'people'
*''ptek'' 'body' > ''pteptek'' 'bodies' (Simplification of clusters in the reduplicant: *teptek occurs in some dialects.)
*''ptek'' 'body' > ''ptek-ptek'' 'bodies'


There was a feminine suffix ''-is''.
There was a feminine suffix ''-is''.