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===Nominals===
===Nominals===
PQ did not distinguish between nouns and adjectives. They both inflected for:
Plurals were formed by reduplication (as in Salish languages).
*5 cases: nominative, (definite) accusative, genitive, dative, predicative
*2 genders: masculine, feminine
*3 numbers: singular, dual, plural
 
Plurals were formed by reduplication (as in Salish languages) or by suffixes.
====Declension====
====Declension====
Plural: ''kawʼqs'' 'raven' > ''kakawʼqs''?
Plural: ''kawʼqs'' 'raven' > ''kakawʼqs''?
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