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==== Number ====
==== Number ====
Unlike Minhast and Nankôre, Nahónda explicitly marks number on nouns with the affix ''-pi''.  This affix is a borrowing from Lakota.  To indicate collectives, particularly of animals, reduplication is employed, e.g. ''dagozloba'' "elk" → ''dagogozloba'' "a herd of elk". Collectives can be further pluralized, e.g. ''dagogozloba'' → ''dagogozloba<u>pi</u>'' "elk herds".
Unlike Minhast and Nankôre, Nahónda explicitly marks number on nouns with the affix ''-pi''.  This affix is a borrowing from Lakota.  To indicate collectives, particularly of animals, reduplication is employed, e.g. ''dagozloba''<sup>1</sup> "elk" → ''dagogozloba'' "a herd of elk". Collectives can be further pluralized, e.g. ''dagogozloba'' → ''dagogozloba<u>pi</u>'' "elk herds".


==== Case ====
==== Case ====