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Revision as of 16:11, 7 February 2019
Contents
Word Class
- Extremely prductive "clitics" that can be attached to various word classes
- No prepositions and conjunctions and adjectives
- At least 20 postpositions
- Highly developed sysytem of converbs (> 20 forms)
- Qualitative verbs replace adjectives
- Use nouns attributively
- Numerals classify nouns into 27 classes
Syntax
- SOV
- Attribute precedes nouns
Morphology
- Verbs not marked for person or number except imperative and some convrbs
- Almost exclusively suffixing
- Plural is optional in the indicative verb
- Two tenses (non-future and future) (-дь indicative -иы future)
- Causitive verbs marked with suffix (-ку -ху -гу -ғу)
- Resultative verbs
- Reflexive pronouns
- Nouns have 9 cases (nominative is not marked)
- Agentive
- dative/additive
- instrumental
- locative
- locative/ablative
- terminative
- comparative
- vocative
Cases
| case name | ~meaning | tag | possible forms | ӄан "dog" | ӈа "animal" |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | subject | <nom> | — | ӄан<n><nom> ↔ ӄан | ӈа<n><nom> ↔ ӈа |
| agentive | various subjects (51) | <age> | аӽ, ӽ | ӄан<n><age> ↔ | ӈа<n><age> ↔ |
| dative/additive | "to, for" | <dat> | тоӽ, доӽ, роӽ, рӽ | ӄан<n><dat> ↔ ӄандоӽ | ӈа<n><dat> ↔ ӈароӽ |
| instrumental | "with" | <ins> | кир, гир, хир, ғир | ӄан<n><ins> ↔ | ӈа<n><ins> ↔ |
| locative | "at, in, on" | <loc> | уйн, йн, н | ӄан<n><loc> ↔ ӄануйн | ӈа<n><loc> ↔ ӈауйн |
| ablative | "in, out of, along, since, from" | <abl> | ух, х | ӄан<n><abl> ↔ | ӈа<n><abl> ↔ |
| terminative | "for, up to, as long as, as far as" | <term> | т'ыкы, р̌ыкы, т'ӽа, р̌'ӽа, рӷа, тоӻо, роӻо, доӻо | ӄан<n><term> ↔ | ӈа<n><term> ↔ |
| comparative | "than [x], compared to [x]" | <comp> | ык, к | ӄан<n><comp> ↔ | ӈа<n><comp> ↔ |
| vocative | direct address | <voc> | а, ː | ӄан<n><voc> ↔ ӄана | ӈа<n><voc> ↔ |
