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==Characteristics== | ==Characteristics== | ||
The historical Talsmic languages have all shared the following characteristics to some extent: | The historical Talsmic languages have all shared the following characteristics to some extent: | ||
*conversion of a former case system into a system of state distinctions | *conversion of a former case system into a system of state distinctions (e.g. definiteness, possessedness, predicative/attributive, generic/specific) | ||
*rigidly head-initial word order | *rigidly head-initial word order | ||
**verb-initial clauses | **verb-initial clauses | ||