#it's got grammatical gender! you don't see that often in austronesian languages!
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thank you internet archive for having a paper avaliable to download that was restricted on the university website i will love you forever
#it's the one of the only recent grammatical descriptions of a member of a top level branch of malayo-polyesian#it's got grammatical gender! you don't see that often in austronesian languages!#this one seems to be based on animacy and not the proximal/distal split you see#in some bougainville languages
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