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Note that there is no grammatical gender preassigned to a given noun. Certain things will take on a gender based on certain implications and information given, such as a dog known to be biologically female. A dog in general will have no gender, but will be marked with "-e" to show that it has gender/sex but that it is unknown. Nouns always end a plosive. When gender is known, a male noun will end in "-o" and a female noun will end in "-ì." It is important to note that only Class I can be assigned a gender, and all others are gender neutral. Of course, gender is irrelevant with case markings, since they appear on opposite ends of a noun.

Nouns are generally expected to begin with a consonant, following the form of case, but several nouns loaned from other languages begin with a vowel. When this occurs, the vowel of the case marking a dropped, to avoid unnecessary adjacency of vowels.

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 Note that there is no grammatical gender preassigned to a given noun. Certain things will take on a gender based on certain implications and information given, such as a dog known to be biologically female. A dog in general will have no gender, but will be marked with "-e" to show that it has gender/sex but that it is unknown. Nouns always end a plosive. When gender is known, a male noun will end in "-o" and a female noun will end in "-ì." It is important to note that only Class I can be assigned a gender, and all others are gender neutral. Of course, gender is irrelevant with case markings, since they appear on opposite ends of a noun.
+Nouns are generally expected to begin with a consonant, following the form of case, but several nouns loaned from other languages begin with a vowel. When this occurs, the vowel of the case marking a dropped, to avoid unnecessary adjacency of vowels.
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