Grammaticalizanuary the 11th

Today’s Grammaticalizanuary follows closely on the coat tails of yesterday’s.
In additional to a system of obligatory possessive classification, Karyoł also has a system of entirely optional numeral classification.
Three possessive classifiers may be used as numeral classifiers (bicil is particularly common). Numerals classifiers group nouns based on shape and consistency (and to a lesser extent ‘type’)

ilta ‘man’ – people
entoanta ‘sheet’ – flat flexible
twol ‘plate’ – flat rigid
bicil ‘hand’ – a residue ‘catch-all’
uruma ‘animal’s ear’ – some fruits, soft lumpy objects
yorta ‘tooth’
omagkwe ‘tongue’
cwañca ‘person’s chest’ – broad objects, pieces of furniture
lerag ‘arm’ – long objects – including long metaphorical extensions
itula ‘grain/point/dot’
koeya ‘flask’
torra ‘head’
bōaka ‘herd’ – orderly masses
wao ‘tray’ – buildings
kuk ‘burrow’
cica ‘rag, scrap’
kal ‘stone, cobble’
biga ‘scale, fish scale’
rāke ‘root’

I’ll put more together on these later – I’m trying to write a big-ish post on middle voice markers for tomorrow, and I can already tell it’s going to be a very busy week.

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