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NOUNS
Nouns generally don’t have case, and employ redoubling for plurals. Nouns may also take honorific prefixes.
As far as agglutination, an object pronoun, noun, and any adjectives are usually perceived and transcribed as one word.
Plural Nouns: reduplication; the last two syllables of the word double
Examples: chitatu → chitatutatu “children”
sechi → sechisechi “dogs”
oti "(a) fish" → otioti “multiples fish”
Groups of animals are formed by compounds of the word chi “multi-” + the singular animal: chioti is "school of fish"
Example Nouns:
besu / friend
chisala / oyster
isashi / head
meda / roll, sushi
pōpu / doctor, healer
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