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The names of spoken languages are the only terms that are considered by this grammar as proper "gentilic adjectives".
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However, scholars disagree concerning which terms should be called gentilic nouns or gentilic adjectives. This is
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because most gentilics in both Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic can legitimately be classified as either nouns or adjectives.
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.. note:: Some :ref:`gentilic nouns<noun_gentilic>` that follow nouns in the
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absolute state function like :ref:`attributive adjectives<adjective-attributive>`.
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Some scholars call these gentilic adjectives as well (for example, "Ruth the Moabitess"). |