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*ᒉᒧᐧᖹ <n><sg> ↔ ᒉᒧᐧᖹᔪ
 
*ᒉᒧᐧᖹ <n><sg> ↔ ᒉᒧᐧᖹᔪ
 
<<yi>> is realized as <<i>> after consonants.
 
<<yi>> is realized as <<i>> after consonants.
*ᑫᒣᘁ<n><sg> ↔ ᑫᒣᖽ
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*ᑫᒣᘁ <n><sg> ↔ ᑫᒣᖽ
 
*ᒍᐡ <n><sg> ↔ ᒍᖹ
 
*ᒍᐡ <n><sg> ↔ ᒍᖹ
*ᓴᔭᑲᘁ<n><sg> ↔ ᓴᔭᑲᖽ
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*ᓴᔭᑲᘁ <n><sg> ↔ ᓴᔭᑲᖽ
 
===Number===
 
===Number===
 
Blackfoot distinguishes between singular and plural nouns.
 
Blackfoot distinguishes between singular and plural nouns.
 
====Animate Plurals====
 
====Animate Plurals====

Revision as of 00:04, 7 February 2017

Nouns

Nouns in Blackfoot can be inflected for grammatical gender (animacy), number particularity, and XXXXX

Noun Inflections

Grammatical Gender

Blackfoot has two noun classes: animate and inanimate. Animate nouns, which refer to sentient beings such as people, animals, and spirits, take the suffixes <<wa>> when singular and <<iksi>> when plural.

Animate Nouns

Singular animate nouns whose stem ends in a vowel take the suffix <<yi>>

  • ᖱ'ᖽᐧᓭᖾ <n><sg> ↔ ᖱ'ᖽᐧᓭᖾᔪ
  • ᖹᒪᒐ <n><sg> ↔ ᖹᒪᒐᔪ
  • ᒉᒧᐧᖹ <n><sg> ↔ ᒉᒧᐧᖹᔪ

<<yi>> is realized as <> after consonants.

  • ᑫᒣᘁ <n><sg> ↔ ᑫᒣᖽ
  • ᒍᐡ <n><sg> ↔ ᒍᖹ
  • ᓴᔭᑲᘁ <n><sg> ↔ ᓴᔭᑲᖽ

Number

Blackfoot distinguishes between singular and plural nouns. ====Animate Plurals====