West Carpathian grammar
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In this article various aspects of West Carpathian grammar are discussed. Unlike the neighbouring languages, such as Slovak and Polish, which are the Slavic languages, West Carpathian belongs to the Oronaic language family, and is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages.
Nouns
The West Carpathian language has gender category in nouns or even in personal pronouns, similarly to neighbouring Hungarian: sun is "he", "she", or "it", depending on the referent. There are no articles, meaning the definiteness is not distinguished.
Cases
West Carpathian has eleven cases: six grammatical cases, three locative cases, three directional cases. The most typical case endings for singular (sg) and plural (pl) numbers are shown in the table below:
Case Ending Example Translation sg pl sg pl Grammatical nominative – -k oiva oivak (a) head accusative different -mma oivā oivamma head (as an object) genitive -ui/-ū/-ju -dū oivū oivadū of (a) head dative -id/-cid -īd/-ecid oivid oivīd head (as an indirect object) instrumental -inä'/-ina -kīn/-kain oivina oivakain by means of (a) head essive -pä/-pa -ipä/-upa oivapa oivaupa as (a) head Locative inessive -utu -eutui/-autui oivautu oivautui in (a) head adessive -ie/-uo -kke/-kko oivuo oivakko on (a) head apudessive -ve/-vo -uhe/-uho oivavo oivauho at/near (a) head Directional illative -ēn/-oan -kēn/-kōn oivoan oivakōn into (a) head lative -ivä/-iva -kua oivaiva oivakua to (a) head allative -hei/-hō -kei/-kō oivahō oivakō onto (a) head