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| rdfs:comment | - As mentioned before Sã is the first daughter language of Sangi. Several main features of this language are the collapse of the declension system due to sound changes, the ending of productive vocalic and consonantal plural mutations with the plural stems taking on a purely collective meaning (also leading to the disappearance of the dual form). The definiteness in nouns also drops out of use and size suffixes no longer remain productive. As a result of sound change, a human vs non-huamn distinction is found in nouns, the verbal system has collapsed meaning an increased use of postverbal particles are used to distinguish now lost meaning, etc. The phonology is incredibly simplified and many sounds have merged into single sounds while others have split. Older basic forms have increasingly be
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| abstract | - As mentioned before Sã is the first daughter language of Sangi. Several main features of this language are the collapse of the declension system due to sound changes, the ending of productive vocalic and consonantal plural mutations with the plural stems taking on a purely collective meaning (also leading to the disappearance of the dual form). The definiteness in nouns also drops out of use and size suffixes no longer remain productive. As a result of sound change, a human vs non-huamn distinction is found in nouns, the verbal system has collapsed meaning an increased use of postverbal particles are used to distinguish now lost meaning, etc. The phonology is incredibly simplified and many sounds have merged into single sounds while others have split. Older basic forms have increasingly been replaced by formerly poetic forms as a result of the phonological collapse with has futher led to increasing homophony.
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