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===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
Nouns inflect for gender, number and case. There | Nouns inflect for gender, number and case. There gender system contains eight classes, based on animacy. The first three classes consist of animate nouns. These three classes are further divided at a more granular level, distinguishing between sentient and non-sentient nouns. Classes I-III can be categorized as follows: | ||
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! Gender !! Type || Nouns | |||
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| Class I || Animate Sentient || humans, mammals, birds, sharks, octopodes, a limited number of reptiles and fish | |||
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| Class II || Animate Non-sentient || most non-mammalian animals, | |||
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| Class III || Animate Metereological || celestial objects, storms, earthquakes, volcanoes, rain, snow, floods, fire, water, bodies of water (excluding anthropogenic sources, such as resevoirs). | |||
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Noun belonging to Classes IV-VIII are all considered inanimate and non-sentient. They are: | |||
Class IV: Inanimate-botanical | |||
Class V: Inanimate – hard objects | |||
Class VI: Inanimate-generic | |||
Class VII: Terrestrial and Elements | |||
Class VIII: Abstract (e.g. concepts, verbal nouns, etc) | |||
These nouns have been organized by traditional grammarians according to five declensions, each reflecting their general semantic domain and their inflectional paradigm. These are known as the ''Toma'', ''Reváni'', ''þúar'', ''Ḩernwin'', ''Arðen'' and ''Nieri'' Declensions. These declensions can generalized as follows: | These nouns have been organized by traditional grammarians according to five declensions, each reflecting their general semantic domain and their inflectional paradigm. These are known as the ''Toma'', ''Reváni'', ''þúar'', ''Ḩernwin'', ''Arðen'' and ''Nieri'' Declensions. These declensions can generalized as follows: |
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