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The Classical Netagin noun system is typical of Talman languages. | The Classical Netagin noun system is typical of Talman languages. | ||
Nouns are traditionally divided into two genders (masculine, feminine), but a four-gender analysis ({masculine, feminine} × {animate, inanimate}) is more common in modern linguistics. | Nouns are traditionally divided into two genders (masculine, feminine), but a four-gender analysis ({masculine, feminine} × {animate, inanimate}) is more common in modern linguistics. There is an inverse number suffix (one for each gender): animate nouns have an unmarked singulative and a suffix in the collective while inanimate and mass nouns have a suffix in the singulative and an unmarked collective. | ||
There is also a construct state, which is often marked with stem changes. | There is also a construct state, which is often marked with stem changes. | ||