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Compare "aroni" /a.rɒ̂.ni/ - spider and "aroni" /a.rɒ̌.ni/ - skull | Compare "aroni" /a.rɒ̂.ni/ - spider and "aroni" /a.rɒ̌.ni/ - skull | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
Just like the phonology, the morphology is quite simple and minimal | Just like the phonology, the morphology is quite simple and minimal, but it has his few weird quirks | ||
===Nouns=== | |||
====Gender==== | |||
Nouns in Rikane can belong to one of 3 genders: | |||
* Spatial | |||
* Astral | |||
* Terral | |||
The gender of a noun modifies almost all of the marking of the sentence, as every word (except prepositions and adverbs) should be marked for gender (except in very informal speech, where those gender markings are often omitted) | |||
The rules to determine the gender of a noun are really simple : | |||
* The noun is an '''astral noun''' if its radical ends in a vowel or a semivowel | |||
* The noun is a '''terral noun''' if its radical ends in a plosive | |||
* The noun is a '''spatial noun''' if its radical ends in a nasal or a fricative | |||