Language
Van Rawats (Ban Rawats) speak a Tibeto-Burman language called "Rawat". It is coded according to international standards as ISO 639-3: jnl. Rawat is closely related to the languages of Raute (ISO 639-3:rau) and Raji (ISO 639-3:rji). Rawat, and also Raute, (pronounced like "rawt" and "rawté") are agglutinating languages, and feature SOV sentences with generally single syllable noun heads and verb stems. Verbs are modified with various particles, including nominalizers, causatives, tense, aspect, person, number and other generally stem final particles. The noun heads have plurals, locatives, deictics, ergatives, reflexives and other generally word-final case markings. Prefixed morphemes similar to adjectives also modify nouns and root-initial voiced/voiceless alternations signal the transitivity of verbs.
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