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| ===Nouns and adjectives=== | | ===Nouns and adjectives=== |
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| Three numbers: sg, du/col, pl | | Three numbers: sg, du/col, pl |
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| ====Vowel-reducing paradigms==== | | ====Possessive suffixes==== |
| The largest class of vowel-reducing nouns have ''á'' or ''é'' between the first and second radicals that reduces to ''a''/''e'' (harmonizing with the frontness of following vowel; ''i'' after a ''y'') when a suffix is added.
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| ===="Crawling-up" nouns====
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| The "crawling-up" (Netagin: ''mittzúchábh'') nouns underlyingly end in a consonant cluster. In the singular oblique cases the stem is turned into a CaCC (if the bare form is CeCaC, CiCC for CéCaC and CoCC for CóCaC) form, and the dual and plural turn the stem into (CaCáC, CeCáC and CoCáC).
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| ====Nouns ending in geminated consonants====
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| These nouns may take sound case/number suffixes, or get the broken plural as a CVCC/CVnC stem.
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| ====''-eh''====
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| In nouns ending in ''-eh'', the ''-eh'' is deleted before a case ending.
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| ===Pronouns=== | | ===Pronouns=== |