Estel Telcontar wrote:
>
>I got thinking recently about wat if there wer a language that markt
>person on nouns, indicating the person-ness of who or what it referd
>to.
>
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>Anyone know ov eny langwages, real or con, that do enything like this?
According to a book I'm reading, Mordvin (a Uralic language or two spoken
in Russia) nouns can take not only a person, but also a tense marking. It
gives the following examples (c = s-hacek):
kand-tano
take-1PL
"We take."
ava-tano
woman-1PL
"We are women."
oc-so-tano
town-INESSIVE-1PL
"We are in a town."
oc-so-l'-in'
town-INE-PRETERITE-1SG
"I was in a town."
kudo-so-nzo-l'-in'
house-INE-3S&POSS-PRET-1SG
"I was in his house."
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about Mordvin.
- M. Astrand
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