Other Traits
Other traits found in Mesoamerican languages, but not found by Campbell, Kaufman and Smith-Stark to be prominent enough to be conclusive for the proposal of the language area are:
- Use of incorporation of bodypart nouns into verbs.
- Derivation of locatives through bodypart nouns.
- The existence of whistled languages
- Grammatical indication of intimate or inalienable possession
- The existence of numeral classifiers
- Grammaticalised polite forms for second person addressees.
- A special ritual language register.
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