Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

Jake X wrote:
>
> ['kr\Istaf r\oUt}:
> > Not two syllables: two morae.
> Since when did Japanese become Latin?
> I didn't think Japanese had a plural in -ae,
> or a plural suffix at all for that matter.
Plural is -tachi, or -gata for honorific.  It's used obligatorily with
pronouns, optionally with human nouns, and, I think, normally not used
for non-human nouns, outside of poetry.

There's also an archaic -ra, which, as far as I know, is currently only
used in a few pronouns, and there are also a few reduplicated forms
(like, shima = island, shimajima = islands), but again, that's
unproductive.

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