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Nouns

Gender

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Nouns in Allamej are divided into three genders just like in a large part of Indo-European languages ​​such as German, Sanskrit and Latin. In Allamej they work as follows: 

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• Neutral: refers to asexual beings, as when sex determination is irrelevant or not necessary to be mentioned as well as abstract nouns too. They end in consonants. All stems are originally neutral. Ex: in - human, fil - taste, affinity, friendship, rab - work.

• Masculine: refers to male beings. They end in o. Ex: ino - man, filo - friend, rabo - worker.

• Feminine: refers to female beings. They end in a. Ex: ina - woman, fila -  femalefriend, raba - worker.

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The vowel terminations were inspired in Slavic, Latin, and Semitic languages. The feminine ending a is based on the phoneme /a/ is present in the feminine of Arabic as in امرأة / marʔa /, in Italian donna /donna/ and in Russian женщина /ʒenʃtʃina/ among other languages. The masculine ending o, is like in the Latin languages ​​such as Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

 

However, gender class in Allamej is not mandatory and has no grammar impact. One can refer to a person in the neutral gender adding in from Yoruba origin. Eg: filin - friend (s), rabin - worker (s). They are all in the neutral gender.

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It is also possible to determine sex keeping the gender neutral by adding jin, "female" or max "male". Ex. rabjin, " female worker", filmax " Male friend". In this way, there is a large possibility of definitions or omissions regarding genders.

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Allamej genders do not require verb or adjective agreement. 

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Number: plural

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Based on the main plural acoustic ending /i/ present in Latin, Italian and Russian nouns, plural in Allamej it is made by adding semi-vowel y to nouns ending in vowels and uy to nouns ending in consonant. Examples:

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• Ino - inoy, "man - men".

• Ina - inay, "woman - women".

• Rab - rabuy, "work - works".

 

The use of the plural ending is not mandatory if it it is clear that the word has a plural meaning by the context. For instance, the number two is denü, so denü inuy, or denü in both mean "two people."

 

Defined and undefined nouns

 

Allamej only has one definite article: ha- from Semitic origin, more specifically Assyrian or Hebrew ה , ha- and is used before any gender. It behaves similar to what happens in Arabic or Hebrew: it is attached right before the words they define. This phenomenon can be verified in Hebrew where the article ה /ha/ is directly attached to the word house בית /bajt/ forming הבית /habajt/, "the house". Examples:

 

• Ino: "Man" or "a man".

• Haino: "The man".

• Fila: "Friend" or "a friend"

• Hafila: "The friend".

• Bav: "feeling" or "a feeling".

• Habav: "The feeling".