Conlangery 139: Ainu (natlang)
Conlangery Podcast
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The Politeness of the Plural
It's very common in Europe among the Indo-European languages of Europe, but I've seen it in other languages in Asia as well. The Chinese formal you pronoun comes from a historical plural that was contracted. Tagalog also has that. Ainu Coppola takes transitive verb subject prefixes, but no object, object prefixes which is kind of weird.
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