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Bhadhagha lost grammatical gender. | Bhadhagha lost grammatical gender. | ||
The definite article is ''an''-L for singular nouns and ''na''-N for plural nouns. Colloquial Bhadhagha may drop the definite article in the singular (leaving behind just the lenition), and also in the plural (leaving behind the eclipsis) if the initial C of the noun is "eclipsable" (i.e. is one of ''∅, p, t, c, b, d, g, f, s''). If the noun cannot eclipse, the ''na'' is always used. | The definite article is ''an''-L for singular nouns and ''na''-N for plural nouns. Colloquial Bhadhagha may drop the definite article in the singular (leaving behind just the lenition), and also in the plural (leaving behind the eclipsis) if the initial C of the noun is "eclipsable" (i.e. is one of ''∅, p, t, c, b, d, g, f, s''). If the noun cannot eclipse, the ''na'' is always used. Proper names do not undergo lenition, however. | ||
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casual bhadhagha could overgeneralize 'an' into an emphatic particle | casual bhadhagha could overgeneralize 'an' into an emphatic particle | ||
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The Thensarian relativizer ''rin'' turned into a genitive marker: ''(an) schain ri Aodhàn'' (Aodhàn's friend). It can be omitted in casual Bhadhagha: ''schain Aodhàn''. | The Thensarian relativizer ''rin'' turned into a genitive marker: ''(an) schain ri Aodhàn'' (Aodhàn's friend). It can be omitted in casual Bhadhagha: ''schain Aodhàn''. | ||
===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||
Adjectives inflect similarly to nouns. | Adjectives inflect similarly to nouns. | ||