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How to Use No-Distinctions in Your Demonstratives
There are five basic demonstratives that encode distance and familiarity. Another common one is encoding movement to or away from the Dakdick Center, which we'll just assume is the person speaking for now because that's easiest. Blackfoot is originally an Algonquin language, but it's living so close to speakers of these wonderful, crazy languages of the Pacific Northwest that it has borrowed a whole bunch of these features.