| 1. | The animate nouns include persons, animals, and kinship terms.
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| 2. | Plurals are marked on animate nouns by adding plural suffixes.
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| 3. | Animate nouns ( referring to persons especially ) do not take the locative.
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| 4. | Noun class I is composed of primarily animate nouns.
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| 5. | Animate nouns have for forms : singular, plural, obviative and locative.
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| 6. | Only animate nouns can take a plural form.
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| 7. | The obviate affixes only go on animate nouns.
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| 8. | The animate noun is again marked with a subject particle, and no location is denoted.
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| 9. | Animate nouns ( most animals and insects, plus some other nouns ) carry the classifier prefix.
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| 10. | Animate nouns are sex-neutral, unless they refer specifically to a male or a female.
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