1808: Somali's Flexible Grammar Nov 26, 2019

Somali grammar allows for great flexibility in its expression. For instance, it uses either tone or morphology—namely suffixes—to indicate case (though not in the absolutive), and plurals are indicated by changing gender, adding a plural marker, or reduplicating the word. Somali also has odd rules like that regarding focus-markers, which like those aforementioned features depend someone on the individual words, but also on the choice of the speaker.

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