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Conlangery #108: Obviation

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Can Conlangers Play With Obviation?

Most of what we know about how obviation works is based on Algonquin languages. So, to me, there's a question in my mind of could conlangers sort of play with this thing and see whether you can fit an obviation system into a language that doesn't have the direct inverse thing. There are other languages that have pretty sophisticated direct inverse systems that don't appear to have obviation.

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