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Revision as of 23:13, 6 February 2017
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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 «i» after consonants.
- ᑫᒣᘁ <n><sg> ↔ ᑫᒣᖽ
- ᒍᐡ <n><sg> ↔ ᒍᖹ
- ᓴᔭᑲᘁ <n><sg> ↔ ᓴᔭᑲᖽ
Number
Blackfoot distinguishes between singular and plural nouns.
Animate Plurals
- ᓴᔭᑲᖽᖱ'ᖽᐧᓭᖾ <n><pl> ᓴᔭᑲᖽᖱ'ᖽᐧᓭᖾᐟᔈᒧᐧ
- ᖹᒪᒐ <n><pl> ᖹᒪᒐᐟᔈᒧᐧ
