Tag: language
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Dagaare – Inherently Plural, Inherently Singular
Today’s post concerns Dagaare, the language spoken by the Dagaaba people in Ghana and Burkina Faso. The language possesses a feature that requires some in-depth explanation, but I don’t doubt that once you understand the beautiful complexity of it, that you will see why this is such an interesting feature. We start by making English…
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Arapaho – Marking for the Fourth Person
I was reading on articles discussing verb-markings when I learned a new term: Obviative. There are not many languages that use the Obviative but this feature has been attested in a few African languages, a Eurasian language, and today’s discussion: Arapaho, an Algonquian language and people in Wyoming and Oklahoma To review, let’s use English…