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| - | ====== Grammatical number ====== | ||
| - | While category of number exists in majority of languages of the Earth, it is not native to Black Speech. It's believed by some linguists that it was absent in Black Speech. This opinion is based upon using the word " | ||
| - | ===== In Nûrlâm ===== | ||
| - | Nouns, adjectives and 1st and 2nd person pronouns do not have category of number. By default they are considered **plural**, so there is no distinction in countable and uncountable nouns. Therefore exact numbers (like in //ash nazg//) and quantifier words (i.e. //some//, //few//, //many//) are used more often than in European languages. However, verbs can carry information about number of subject in 3rd person and of object if it's 3rd person [[clitic]] pronoun. | ||
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| - | ===== In Orcish dialects and colloquial speech ===== | ||
| - | In Orcish dialects (like Shadowlandian) unanimated nouns have singular and plural form, animated nouns have one form for both (which is often ignored in colloquial speech where there is no distinction in animacy). But Adjectives have plural form despite animacy of connected noun. Pronouns have plural form. Verbs have special 3rd person plural suffix //-ut//. Plural suffix is the same for nouns, pronouns and adjectives. In Shadowlandian and Horngoth it's //-u// and //-i// in Svartiska and MERP. Nûrlâm suggests using //-û// (taken from rare Svartiska veriant) to avoid confusion with preposition meaning " | ||
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| - | Some dialects consider suffixes //-ûk// (all) or //-hai// (folk, people) as // | ||
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