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Could you rectify mistakes? Kugama is the Adamawa language (Niger-Congo), which is spoken in the state of Adamawa in Nigeria. As far as we know there are no studies on kugama grammar. The linguistic expedition to Nigeria in January-February 2014 initiated a study of basic morphological and syntactic properties. This paper gives brief information on possessive pronouns in kugama, which are of great typological interest. At the moment possessive pronouns in kugama can be divided into two types. The first one is presented as a possessive suffix. It is attached to a noun, which means a part of body, or a term of kinship. The six suffixes mark number and person of possessors. Moreover, kugama has a great variety of independent forms of possessive pronouns, which collocate with the rest group of words. The possessive pronouns are used not only according to number and person of possessor, but also number of possessee head. Thereby there are twelve independent forms of possessive pronouns. Although, a mention should be made that detailed information is still lacking and this subject requires further study and correction.

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Kugama is the Adamawa language (Niger-Congo), which is spoken in the state of Adamawa in Nigeria. As far as we know there are no studies on kugama grammar. The linguistic expedition to Nigeria in January-February 2014 initiated a study of basic morphological and syntactic properties. This paper gives  a brief introduction of formation on possessive pronouns in kugama, which are of great typological interest. At the moment possessive pronouns in kugama can be divided into two types. The first one is presented as a possessive suffix. It is attached to a noun, which means a part of body, or a term of kinship. The six suffixes mark the number and the person of possessors. Moreover, kugama has a great variety of independent forms of possessive pronouns, which collocate with the rest of the group of words. The possessive pronouns are used not only according to the number and the person of possessors, but also the number of possessee head. Therefore, there are twelve independent forms of possessive pronouns. Although, a mention should be made that detailed information is still lacking not available  and this subject requires further study and correction.

 

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