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Proto-Talmic needs "ingredients" for Roshterian polysynthesis. | Proto-Talmic needs "ingredients" for Roshterian polysynthesis. | ||
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Proto-Talmic has innovated a sex-based gender system with masculine, feminine, and neuter genders | Proto-Talmic has innovated a sex-based gender system with masculine, feminine, and neuter genders: | ||
# | # Proto-Quihum had a gender system of common and neuter genders, and also had an honorific distinction which required agreement in verbs and adjectives. | ||
# In Pre-Talmic, the honorific developed into its own gender, often being used for big, sacred, specialized, or abstract things, in addition to people of high social status. | # In Pre-Talmic, the honorific developed into its own gender, often being used for big, sacred, specialized, or abstract things, in addition to people of high social status. | ||
# The word for "lady" becomes the normal word for "woman" (like how Frau became the normal word for woman in German while Weib is now archaic/derogatory) | # The word for "lady" becomes the normal word for "woman" (like how Frau became the normal word for woman in German while Weib is now archaic/derogatory) | ||