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===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Nouns=== | |||
Brono-Fathanic, unlike most other Samaidulic languages, inflects nouns (cf. the uninflected nouns of Qualdomelic), but only in the plural indefinite. There are two series of articles, marking a definite singular and a "universal" plural (usually translated as "all"); the indefinite plural is formed with the use of suffixes (historically the Proto-Samaidulic plural articles, cf. ''-ty, -iea, -hine'' with Qualdomelic ''tăjț, tajγ, ing''), and the definite singular articles mark the definite plural when used together with this suffix: | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="textalign:center" | |||
|- | |||
! Class !! Singular !! Universal !! Plural suffix | |||
|- | |||
! Masculine | |||
| tea || rowspan=2 | te || -ty | |||
|- | |||
! Feminine | |||
| ta || -iea | |||
|- | |||
! Neuter | |||
| vy || ire || -hine | |||
|} | |||
Examples: | |||
: ''ibory'' "sea, a sea" – ''tea ibory'' "the sea" – ''ibority'' "seas" – ''tea ibority'' "the seas" – ''te ibory'' "all the seas" – | |||
: ''bilo'' "tree, a tree" – ''ta bilo'' "the tree" – ''bilotea'' "trees" – ''ta bilotea'' "the trees" – ''te bilo'' "all the trees" | |||
: ''fendra'' "day, a day" – ''vy fendra'' "the day" – ''fendrahine'' "days" – ''vy fendrahine'' "the days" – ''ire fendra'' "all the days" | |||
Note that articles are repeated before all elements in a noun phrase, e.g. ''ta koresy ta ôhany'' "the red apple", ''te ibory te sigeloa'' "all the calm seas". | |||
====Possession==== | |||
Possessed nouns in Brono-Fathanic are marked by a following postposition which varies according to the gender and number of the possessed noun. The masculine singular form is '''ke''', the feminine and neuter singular one is '''kea''', while the one used for all plurals is '''keisy'''. | |||
Some nouns, on the other hand, have a completely different possessed form and never use the possessive particle. The most common examples are '''kaimoa''' "son" and '''kamine''' "daughter", which have the possessed forms ''eimoa'' "son of..." and ''emine'' "daughter of...". | |||
===Numerals=== | ===Numerals=== | ||
Modern Brono-Fathanic has two number systems, with a main duodecimal one borrowed from [[Chlouvānem]] which, unlike in its western neighbor [[Qualdomelic]], is supplemented by the native decimal one, which is however strictly limited in scope (rarely used for enumerating further than 30<sub>10</sub>).<br/> | Modern Brono-Fathanic has two number systems, with a main duodecimal one borrowed from [[Chlouvānem]] which, unlike in its western neighbor [[Qualdomelic]], is supplemented by the native decimal one, which is however strictly limited in scope (rarely used for enumerating further than 30<sub>10</sub>).<br/> | ||