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Genitive should be -some vowel + (ng) in PI | Genitive should be -some vowel + (ng) in PI | ||
Some nouns, like family terms and body parts, shouldn't have classifiers | Some nouns, like proper nouns, family terms and body parts, shouldn't have classifiers | ||
=== PI classifiers === | |||
Todo: suppletive plural forms | |||
* nawil, pl. ike: generic things | |||
* soŋi, pl. oru: people | |||
* p'asur: big animals | |||
* wipi: small animals | |||
* mosat: flat sheets | |||
* keron: trees and bushes | |||
* yuŋos: herbaceous plants | |||
* bawăd: flowers, bunches of fruit | |||
* aŋk'ă: long thin rigid objects, paths, ways things are done (e.g. languages) | |||
* wasik: long thin flexible objects | |||
* ut’uop: fruits, roughly spherical things | |||
* tul: circles, rings | |||
* ŋes: buildings | |||
* p'odal: vehicles | |||
* lăep: marks, like written characters, wounds, … | |||
* rukir: places | |||
* uta: events; verbal nouns tend to take this classifier | |||