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==Morphology==
==Morphology==
===Articles===
Unlike neighboring Ibero-Romance languages, but like most Gallo-Romance ones, as well as Italian, Atlantic has three series of articles: definite (''articul determinont''), indefinite (''articul indeterminont''), and partitive (''articul parçoir''), the plural forms of the latter doubling as plural indefinite articles.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Class !! Masculine Sg. !! Feminine Sg. !! Plural
|-
! Definite articles<br/>(''articulot determinontot'')
| in*, ir || na, ra || not, rot
|-
! Indefinite articles<br/>(''articulot indeterminontot'')
| aun || auna || rowspan=2 | dinot, dirot
|-
! Partitive articles<br/>(''articulot parçoirot'')
| din*, dir || dina, dira
|}
The forms with ''-r-'' are used instead of those in ''-n-'' if the first syllable of the noun includes a nasal consonant:
: ''in curbur, not curburot, dinot curburot'' "the body, the bodies, some bodies" but ''ir nàidur, rot nàidurot, dirot nàidurot'' "the shore, the shores, some shores"
: ''na uçora, not uçorot, dinot uçorot'' "the wife, the wives, some wives" but ''ra nimba, rot nimbot, dirot nimbot'' "the language, the languages, some languages"
The articles ''in'' and ''din'', furthermore, assimilate their consonant to a following /t d s ʃ l/ as ''(d)it, (d)id, (d)is, (d)is, (d)il'':
: ''it test'' "the roof", ''id did'' "the finger", ''is suc'' "the market", ''is siampain'' "the champagne", ''il laus'' "the almond".
===Nouns===
===Nouns===
Atlantic nouns do not decline for case and are only inflected for number.
Atlantic nouns do not decline for case and are only inflected for number.
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