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Conlangery #42: Practicum — Getting Rid of Adjectives

Conlangery Podcast

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Algonquin Languages

The Algonquin languages have very funny things. Most of their adjectives are, again, verb-like but they have a bunch of things called pre-nouns. So you can't even sort of do an afra to save yourself or anything. Not in theAlgonquin languages that I've studied. Maybe some allow that, and there may be natural languages where you can.

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