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Conlangery 139: Ainu (natlang)

Conlangery Podcast

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The Differences Between Passive and Indefinite Subject Markers

There are languages that have like, uh, I'm trying to think, feel like a jibwe has both passives and indefinite subjects. That may just be a weird way of, of understanding of, of analyzing it, maybe biased by the way it was translated. But yeah, like they're not exactly the same thing. So, so you have all these mostly, uh, prefixes things that you can add on verbs which is quite productive. And this is extremely, it's actually extremely productive. There are plenty of ways that the, uh, the,  all these prefixes are used to change the meaning of, uh, of verbs.

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