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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Articles=== | |||
Unlike neighboring Ibero-Romance languages, but like most Gallo-Romance ones, as well as Italian, Atlantic has three series of articles: definite (''articul determinont''), indefinite (''articul indeterminont''), and partitive (''articul parçoir''), the plural forms of the latter doubling as plural indefinite articles. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! Class !! Masculine Sg. !! Feminine Sg. !! Plural | |||
|- | |||
! Definite articles<br/>(''articulot determinontot'') | |||
| in*, ir || na, ra || not, rot | |||
|- | |||
! Indefinite articles<br/>(''articulot indeterminontot'') | |||
| aun || auna || rowspan=2 | dinot, dirot | |||
|- | |||
! Partitive articles<br/>(''articulot parçoirot'') | |||
| din*, dir || dina, dira | |||
|} | |||
The forms with ''-r-'' are used instead of those in ''-n-'' if the first syllable of the noun includes a nasal consonant: | |||
: ''in curbur, not curburot, dinot curburot'' "the body, the bodies, some bodies" but ''ir nàidur, rot nàidurot, dirot nàidurot'' "the shore, the shores, some shores" | |||
: ''na uçora, not uçorot, dinot uçorot'' "the wife, the wives, some wives" but ''ra nimba, rot nimbot, dirot nimbot'' "the language, the languages, some languages" | |||
The articles ''in'' and ''din'', furthermore, assimilate their consonant to a following /t d s ʃ l/ as ''(d)it, (d)id, (d)is, (d)is, (d)il'': | |||
: ''it test'' "the roof", ''id did'' "the finger", ''is suc'' "the market", ''is siampain'' "the champagne", ''il laus'' "the almond". | |||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
Atlantic nouns do not decline for case and are only inflected for number. | Atlantic nouns do not decline for case and are only inflected for number. | ||