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Proto-Talmic needs "ingredients" for Roshterian polysynthesis. | Proto-Talmic needs "ingredients" for Roshterian polysynthesis. | ||
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Proto-Talmic has innovated a sex-based gender system with masculine, feminine, and neuter genders. | |||
# PQ had an honorific distinction which requires agreement in verbs and adjectives. | |||
# In Pre-Talmic, the honorific developed into its own gender, often being used for big, sacred, specialized, or abstract things, in addition to people of high social status. | |||
# The word for "lady" becomes the normal word for "woman" (like how Frau became the normal word for woman in German while Weib is now archaic/derogatory) | |||
# Thus, the former honorific agreement analogized to all women. | |||
====Masculine nouns==== | ====Masculine nouns==== | ||
(Just one paradigm) | (Just one paradigm) | ||