There aren't many good up-close pictures of Batlina yet, so I asked @_knucklebone@twitter.com for some help.
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conlang | yobo wugu dan [05]
Some other fun things wugu dan has:
• Reduplication
tā kerō
1sg sing[IPFV]
"I sing/am singing/was singing/..."
tā kerōro
1sg sing~PFV
"I sung"
• four noun classes:
I - people, birds
II - aquatic creatures
III - other animate
IV - inanimate
With agreement for these classes showing on possessor marking, measure words, and possibly some adjectives?
• measure words
You can't say "6 dogs", you must say "6 <measure word> dogs".
conlang | yobo wugu dan [04]
This essentially means that some switch reference markers can convert ergative nouns into absolutive ones, and visa versa.
There's still a lot of details to work out (significantly, what these markers actually sound like, and how they behave morphologically), but I definitely feel like I'm heading into new (to me) linguistic territory and exploring things
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