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Nahónda verbs use special clitics to differentiate whether the speaker is male or female. These clitics have no cognates in any of the Nahenic languages, but were adopted from their immediate Siouan-speaking neighbors, specifically, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_language#Men's_and_women's_speech Lakota]. They are apparently a recent borrowing, as the forms are exactly the same as in Lakota, having undergone no phonological changes. | Nahónda verbs use special clitics to differentiate whether the speaker is male or female. These clitics have no cognates in any of the Nahenic languages, but were adopted from their immediate Siouan-speaking neighbors, specifically, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_language#Men's_and_women's_speech Lakota]. They are apparently a recent borrowing, as the forms are exactly the same as in Lakota, having undergone no phonological changes. | ||
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! Male | |||
! Female | |||
! Function | |||
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! Ablative | |||
| to approach | |||
| Minhast ''hān'' "to come" | |||
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! Comitative | |||
| to accompany | |||
| Minhast ''saħpan'' "to walk" | |||
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! Instrumental | |||
| to use | |||
| Minhast ''sespir'' "hand" | |||
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! Locative | |||
| to sit down | |||
| Minhast ''saššian'' "to sit" | |||
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! Perlative | |||
| to ford a river, stream, or other body of water | |||
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