Ín Duári: Difference between revisions

Nouns inflect for gender, number and case.  The gender system contains eight classes, descended from an earlier system that distinguished animacy through noun classifiers.  In time these classifiers became bound morphemes, accounting for the disparate patterns found across the present noun class system.  The noun classes still retain some correlation with animacy, but these distinctions have blurred, with some of the nouns in the protolanguage being reassigned to another class due to syncretism.