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Conlangery #42: Practicum — Getting Rid of Adjectives

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Using a Noun Phrase in Nahuatl

In Nahuatl, there's not even an adjective slot. You can use them in either order because they're just nouns in opposition. If you want to talk about things that have the quality of something, there are derivations that give you sort of verbi-like things or additional things. But I don't know other languages that do this so thoroughly as Nahuatl.

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