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Conlangery #30: Numeral Systems

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Plural Marking in Chinese

Mandarin has no plural marking except for on pronouns and optional on human nouns so yes most of the time it has none. It's not that Chinese has weak number marking unless you're a pronoun it has none right well I said it has very limited people keep saying that it has none and it doesn't have none it just has it only has it all obligatory on pronouns and optionally onhuman nouns but anyway wow I'm suddenly much louder louder why am I doing that okay anyway so where was I going you made me lose my career thought William hello you can’t hear me what can now can William hear me hello hello what the hell happened I don't know how did this happen

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