
Conlangery #25: Grammatical Voice
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Bantu Grammar Notes
There are no glosses on the site. Barely. There is a special noun class for collective nouns or mass nouns, rather. And they're all marked by a prefix of some kind. All of this is very standard Bantu kinds of stuff. But he mixes up it up with numbers so that there's an animate inanimate distinction to me. It seems like you can mix and match the classes for singular and plural. I don't really have much to say on this. It just reminds me a lot of the language I did in field methods for good reason. So, was that a Bantu? Yeah. Although, I love these examples sentences. Little red
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