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| ten || ''[[Contionary:tumi|tumi]]'' || ʔɤmi̩ || From Hawaiian ''‘umi''. | | ten || ''[[Contionary:tumi|tumi]]'' || ʔɤmi̩ || From Hawaiian ''‘umi''. | ||
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===Nouns=== | |||
====Collective nouns==== | |||
In English, collective nouns are used to indicate mainly groups of animals, like "a ''murder'' of crows" or "a ''rafter'' of turkeys". In Kaikiwan, there are collective nouns for almost all non-abstract nouns, and different collective nouns are used based on the number of said noun. | |||
For example, take the word ''[[Contionary:tona|tona]]''; "person". When there are one or two people, there is no collective noun nor plural declension; it is simply ''mima tona'' or ''lwa tona''(lit. "one person", "two person"). After three, the plural declension is used. Then, at 5 people, the collective noun ''iku'', roughly translating to "group" is used, and at 10 people, the word ''mwéké''("army") is used. | |||
Thus, there are two categories of collective nouns: '''5+''' and '''10+'''. | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||