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Conlangery 139: Ainu (natlang)

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Ainu Nouns

Ainu nouns as in Japanese do not have any kind of changes. They are all marked simply by word order and agreement on the verb. Other oblique rules are marked by postpositions. For instance, there is a... What was it? Yeah, kusu, which means basically because of. You have a committative tura, an instrumental which is ari. So instrumentancy by means committative is just with a person. But most important are the locative postpositions which are somewhat more used than the other ones. The main thing is if you were going to prove a relationship, you would have to have evidence for it. That by itself

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