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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 the same as in Lakota, albeit having undergone a few trivial 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 and functions are the same as in Lakota, albeit having undergone a few trivial phonological changes. | ||
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