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Conlangery #25: Grammatical Voice

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The Middle Voice in Western European Languages

The middle is when the agent and the patient are the same. Most of the romance or Western European languages use reflexives for a middle. If I'm washing myself, it's jumilov. And so you put the chamere wherever you put your articles near the dog if you get what I'm saying. So that's sort of a specific way to apply a voice.

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