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The Netagin noun system is typical of Talman languages: nouns inflect in a singulative-collective-plurative system and have absolute and construct states. The ''-u'' is an '''inverse collective marker'''; some nouns (especially animate nouns) have an unmarked singulative and ''-u'' in the collective while other nouns (especially mass nouns or objects that tend to appear in groups) have ''-u'' in the singulative and an unmarked collective. | The Netagin noun system is typical of Talman languages: nouns inflect in a singulative-collective-plurative system and have absolute and construct states. The ''-u'' is an '''inverse collective marker'''; some nouns (especially animate nouns) have an unmarked singulative and ''-u'' in the collective while other nouns (especially mass nouns or objects that tend to appear in groups) have ''-u'' in the singulative and an unmarked collective. | ||
Nouns have a definite article ''ʔes-'' | |||
Classical Netagin has innovated a sex-based gender system with masculine and feminine genders: | Classical Netagin has innovated a sex-based gender system with masculine and feminine genders: | ||