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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
Zlïce is polysynthetic in that it features noun incorporation with certain verbs. It is unlike most other polysynthetic languages in that word lengths are comparable to the average Germanic or Finnic language. | Zlïce is polysynthetic in that it features noun incorporation with certain verbs. It is unlike most other polysynthetic languages in that word lengths are comparable to the average Germanic or Finnic language. These is because the morpheme count in an average Zlïce word is much smaller than in most polysynthetic languages. | ||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
Zlïce nouns come in four genders: personal, human, animate nonhuman and inanimate. Technically the personal gender isn't really a noun gender because it only includes pronouns but it's treated as a gender for the sake of verb agreement. | Zlïce nouns come in four genders: personal, human, animate nonhuman and inanimate. Technically the personal gender isn't really a noun gender because it only includes pronouns but it's treated as a gender for the sake of verb agreement. | ||