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(Many daughter languages are SVO and head-initial-ish. Kawenic which has an Estonian-like grammar is an exception.) | (Many daughter languages are SVO and head-initial-ish. Kawenic which has an Estonian-like grammar is an exception.) | ||
=== Nouns and adjectives === | === Nouns and adjectives === | ||
Nouns inflect for case and number, and adjectives agree with nouns in case and number. | Nouns inflect for case and number, and adjectives agree with nouns in case and number. | ||
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=== Verbs === | === Verbs === | ||
==== Triggers ==== | ==== Triggers ==== | ||
=== Classifiers === | |||
Classifiers are morphologically nouns, but a few have suppletive plural forms. | |||
There could be some dialectal variation in classifiers | |||
* nawil, pl. ike: generic things | |||
* soŋi, pl. oru: people | |||
* p'asur: big animals | |||
* wipi: small animals | |||
* mosat: flat sheets | |||
* keron: trees and bushes | |||
* yuŋos: herbaceous plants | |||
* bawăd: flowers, bunches of fruit | |||
* aŋk'ă: long thin rigid objects, paths, ways things are done (e.g. languages) | |||
* wasik: long thin flexible objects | |||
* ut’uop: fruits, roughly spherical things | |||
* tul: circles, rings | |||
* ŋes: buildings | |||
* p'odal: vehicles | |||
* lăep: marks, like written characters, wounds, … | |||
* rukir: places | |||
* mit: events; verbal nouns tend to take this classifier | |||
=== Ideophones === | |||
* ŋubeŋube ‘sluggish’ | |||
=== Derivation === | === Derivation === | ||