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| the vocabulary associated with a specific register |
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| the groups into which purportedly related language families are placed |
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| the groups into which purportedly related language stocks are placed |
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| languages in which single words can consist of long strings of lexical categories and affixes, often expressing the meaning of an entire sentence in English (e.g. Inuktitut) |
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| term used to signal a word's membership in the masculine gender category |
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| term used to signal membership in the feminine gender category |
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| term used to signal a word's membership in the neuter gender category |
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| a noun class category in some langauges (e.g. both duck and pipe are animate nouns in Cree) |
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| a noun class category in some language |
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