Morphology
Swampy Cree is a polysynthetic language that relies heavily on verbs. That is to say, many things that would be expressed in English through nouns or adjectives are expressed as verbs. In fact, Swampy Cree lacks adjectives at all. Instead, they use an intransitive form of a verb. For example, instead of saying "He is strong" in Cree it is closer to something like "He strongs".
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