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Conlangery #51: Language History

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Is There a Bantu Language?

In Chinese, the classifiers are just arbitrarily assigned to words. The behavior of it seems to be much more like that than the Chinese, even. It's a lot more like what we would recognize as grammatical gender in the Bantu languages. But if you, for example, wanted to talk about, say, I don't know, talk about maybe a piece of paper, but you wanted to accentuate that aspect of it...I don't think you could just switch that classifier. Nothing really interesting about the numbers that I can see."

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