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| ==Sound changes==
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| :''See [[Lenian languages]].''
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| ==Grammar==
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| ===Noun classes===
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| Paleo-Pabappa did not have an established syllable order such as that used by Late Andanese.
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| Paleo-Pabappa retains the single-consonant forms of the CV classifiers, which appear only before stems beginning in vowels. In Proto-[[Kava]] and proto-Eastern Subumpamese, these were replaced with reduplicated CVC forms, and in the [[Gold language]], they were replaced with the ordinary CV classifiers but later disappeared entirely.
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| ====Animate Group I====
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| #'''pu''': Pregnant women and epicenes; verbs of emotion.
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| #:Becomes '''p-''' before vowel-initial stems.
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| #'''pi''': Adult females; worms.
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| #:Becomes '''p-''' before vowel-initial stems and takes epicene verb agreement.
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| #'''tə''': Adult males; rabbits and hares.
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| #:Becomes '''p-''' before vowel-initial stems and takes epicene verb agreement.
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| Note that the feminine prefix ''pi-'' is historically cognate to the ''m-'' group below, which by the time of paleo-Pabappa had come to be a category for children rather than women. In fact, the prefix was originally identical with ''mi-'' "milk; breast", but underwent a sound change due to being always used as a prefix whereas ''mi-'' could also appear in standalone form.
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| In addition to losing their vowels before vowel stems, these three stems disappear entirely before ''p-''stems on the conditions that:
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| #The ''p-''stem is not another noun. (For example, one must say '''pipèpu''' "her crab", not ''*pèpu''.)
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| ====Animate Group II====
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| #'''ni''': Maidens, young girls; certain female body parts; ducklike birds.
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| #:Becomes '''m-''' before stems beginning in ''u-'' and '''ń-''' before other vowel-initial stems.
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| #'''mu''': Young children; most other birds.
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| #:Becomes '''m-''' before vowel-initial stems.; appears as ''mə-'' in a few words.
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| #'''pe''': Crustaceans; sea life.
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| #:Becomes '''m-''' before vowel-initial stems.
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| ====Animate Group III====
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| Nouns in this group must be padded with one of the human identifier prefixes in order to form disyllabic prefixes.
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| #'''pa''': Sheep and goats.
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| #'''ńe''': Snakes.
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| #'''hə''': Frogs, amphibians.
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| #:Becomes '''f-''' before vowel-initial stems.
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| #'''li''': Turtles.
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| #'''la''': Mice and rodents.
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| #'''ča''': Flying insects.
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| #'''ke''': Cats.
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| #'''po''': Ants, crawling insects.
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| #:Becomes '''p-''' before vowel-initial stems and takes epicene verb agreement.
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| "Po-" is historically identical to the prefix for pregnant women and epicenes, but was never of the same level on the animacy hierarchy. <---POSSIBLY JUST DELETE THIS ENTIRELY FROM ALL LANGUAGES
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| These prefixes can also be used to denote the habitats of the animals. e.g. ča = sky, hə = swamp, ke = forest, la & ńe = underground
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| ====Inanimate Group I====
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| Most words in this group are words for plants or objects made from plants.
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| #'''ši''': Some types of trees.
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| #'''hə''': Corals.
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| #'''ti''': Flower blossoms.
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| #:Contracts to ''t-'' before a vowel.
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| #'''ma''': Very tall grasses.
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| #'''pe''': Money; some grasses.
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| #'''mu''': Fruit; buildings.
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| #'''me''': Alcohol, soap, and mixed formulas.
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| #'''fo''': Some types of grass.
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| #'''pu''': Succulent fruit; grass, clover, small plants; round objects; some trees;
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| #'''nə''': Claws, sharp objects; certain fruits.
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| #'''fu''': Wind and air; claws and other hard body parts.
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| ====Inanimate Group II====
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| This group contains body parts and certain things typically held close to one's person.
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| #'''ti''': Teeth.
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| #:Contracts to ''t-'' before a vowel.
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| #'''ko''': Bones.
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| #'''ni''': Feminine hygiene products.
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| #'''i''': Edible body parts.
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| #'''to''': Blood and bodily humors.
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| #'''pa''': Clothes.
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| #'''fo''': Some words for clothes.
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| #'''mi''': Milk, inedible body parts.
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| The prefix ''mi-'' is historically identical with the feminine prefix ''pi-''. The "teeth" prefix ''ti-'' is historically homophonous with, but not related to, the "flower blossom" prefix.
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| ====Inanimate Group III====
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| This group contains landforms and other objects most usually found in the locative rather than as the agent or patient of a verb.
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| #'''ə''': Open places.
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| #'''o''': Furniture and land formations.
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| #'''po''': Oceanographic formations.
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| #'''mu''': Fruit; buildings.
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| #'''pe''': Ocean and sea.
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| #'''ča''': Tall trees; the sky.
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| #'''pi''': Water, weather.
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| #'''me''': Kingdoms and empires.
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| #'''pu''': Celestial objects.
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| The prefix ''ča-'' "trees; sky" is in fact a single morpheme even going back to the days of Mumba, and not a merger of a velar with a palatal.
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| ====Inanimate Group IV====
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| This group contains handheld objects and alienable possessions.
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| #'''yo''': Handheld objects; coins.
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| #'''ši''': Certain other handheld objects.
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| #'''ri''': Some other handheld objects.
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| #'''hə''': Corals; still other handheld objects.
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| #'''ke''': Wheels.
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| #'''pu''': Round objects; arrows, weapons, and handheld tools.
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| #'''a''': Whips.
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| The prefix ''ke-'' can be used for large circular objects; ''yo-'' for small ones, and ''pu-'' for spheres.<ref>If coins are round, that is.</ref>
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| ====Uses of noun classes====
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| Note that some noun classes had little use as nouns; for example '''li-''' "turtle" was only used in a few words for turtles. Instead, they were productive primarily as verbs, such as "to walk slowly", "to be hard", etc.
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| ===Later history of Paleo-Pabappa===
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| Paleo-Pabappa did not evolve into [[Pabappa]]. Instead, Paba's people shifted to speaking the [[Gold language]] as it was introduced from [[AlphaLeap]], and quickly developed a distinctive dialect of it that ultimately came to be called Pabappa. However, Paleo-Pabappa still survived inside [[Subumpam]], since the two nations of northeastern Subumpam had joined the Subumpamese Union after seceding from Paba. The other Subumpamese people considered Paleo-Pabappa to be just another of the many Subumpamese languages, as it shared similarities with neighboring languages such as [[Gala language|Galà]] and proto-Eastern Subumpamese.
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| Paleo-Pabappa split into three languages: one for each of the two Pabap nations in Subumpam, and one for people in Paba who had not yet shifted to speaking [[Gold language|Gold]]. However, Subumpam was soon wiped out in [[Vegetable War|a catastrophic war]], and Paba's strong national government drove the remnant speakers of Paleo-Pabappa into learning what was to eventually become [[Pabappa]].
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