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Conlangery #34: Gender and Noun Classes

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Algonquin Verbs and Gender

Algonquin verbs are extremely sensitive to grammatical animacy versus in animacy with intransitive verbs matching the subject and transitive verb matching the object so any given verb may have up to four forms. I think there are some verbs which have a weird sensitivity to gender but I'm not exactly sure what was happening oh okay yeah um we the wackiness of algonquin verbs.

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