yosh on Nostr: I learned about the first/second-hand account feature of the Cherokee language, and I ...

I learned about the first/second-hand account feature of the Cherokee language, and I really like it. My understanding is that verbs take a different suffix depending on whether you yourself observed something, or you got that information from someone else.

Would happily trade, say, gendered nouns in Latin languages for clearer provenance by default.