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{{Wikipedia|animacy}}
'''Animacy''' is a [[grammatical]] feature that expresses how [[alive]] or sentient the referent of a word is, or is viewed as.
[[Toki Pona]] does not include all of the same animacy markers as English. For example, the English {{w|third-person pronoun}} "it" is '''inanimate''', while alternatives such as "they" are '''animate'''; in Toki Pona, these are all covered by {{tp|[[ona]]}}, which does not mark animacy.
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