[Lexicog] Particularity of Neapolitan grammar - origin?

[Conor McDonough Quinn]

Dia dhuit, a chara!

> Example: your mother in Italian is "tua madre" and in Neapolitan "mammate"
>
> So the possessive is directly connected to the noun.
This is pretty common: Albanian has this, and colloquian Bulgarian as
well, by a slightly different but related route; Somali, standard Finnish,
and Inuktitut are other examples.  I imagine, however, that there are
people far more versed than me in such matters on this list---especially
with regard to the history of Neapolitan in particular.  Till later, keep
well.

Sla/n,
do chara


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