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Conlangery #58: Practicum — Things you can do with the Middle Voice

Conlangery Podcast

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Navajo

Navajo uses it has a possessive affix that just means someone's huh yeah well think about it in the majority of cases when you would actually be speaking you would know whose mother it is. Conlangers tend to avoid things like class three nouns that have 12 different possible plural markers because we all harbor the idea that we might want to use our language for more than just confusing people and we would like not to have to remember or screw up things ourselves anyway. historical development is good for throwing that out so that's true too um you were.

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