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The Classical Netagin noun system is typical of Talman languages: nouns inflect in a singulative-collective system. | The Classical Netagin noun system is typical of Talman languages: nouns inflect in a singulative-collective system. | ||
Animate masculine nouns have an unmarked singulative and ''-â'' in the collective while inanimate and mass nouns have ''-â'' in the singulative and an unmarked collective. Feminine nouns always have ''-ö'' in the singular and ''-öb'' in the plural. | |||
There is also a construct state, which is often marked with stem changes. | |||
Nouns have a definite article ''ʔes-''. | Nouns have a definite article ''ʔes-''. | ||