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Conlangery #25: Grammatical Voice

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Noun Incorporation in Chinese

This is actually Bantu languages are known for this too, having a bunch of a plicative type. He uses things that wrap around noun phrases to be what we would call prepositions. They're kind of Chinese-like where you have the first part indicates motion or lack of motion and then the noun.

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