West Carpathian grammar: Difference between revisions
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| [[w:Dative case|dative]] || ''piennäid'' || ''piennīd'' | | [[w:Dative case|dative]] || ''piennäid'' || ''piennīd'' | ||
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| [[w:Illative case|illative]] || '' | | [[w:Illative case|illative]] || ''pienkähen'' || ''pienkäkēn'' | ||
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| [[w:Nominative case|nominative]] || ''pelki'' || ''pellek'' | |||
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| [[w:Accusative case|accusative]] || ''pelkeä'' || ''pellimme'' | |||
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| [[w:Genitive case|genitive]] || ''peľľu'' || ''pelkidui'' | |||
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| [[w:Dative case|dative]] || ''pellīd'' || ''pelkīd'' | |||
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| [[w:Illative case|illative]] || ''pelkihen'' || ''pelkikēn'' | |||
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| [[w:Nominative case|nominative]] || '' | | [[w:Nominative case|nominative]] || ''kudi'' || ''kudik'' | ||
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| [[w:Accusative case|accusative]] || ''kudeja'' || '' | | [[w:Accusative case|accusative]] || ''kudeja'' || ''kudimma'' | ||
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| [[w:Genitive case|genitive]] || ''kudeju'' || ''kudeidū'' | | [[w:Genitive case|genitive]] || ''kudeju'' || ''kudeidū'' | ||
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| [[w:Nominative case|nominative]] || '' | | [[w:Nominative case|nominative]] || ''partu'' || ''paruk'' | ||
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| [[w:Accusative case|accusative]] || '' | | [[w:Accusative case|accusative]] || ''parauta'' || ''parumma'' | ||
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| [[w:Genitive case|genitive]] || '' | | [[w:Genitive case|genitive]] || ''partau'' || ''paraudū'' | ||
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| [[w:Dative case|dative]] || '' | | [[w:Dative case|dative]] || ''paraucīd'' || ''paraudīd'' | ||
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| [[w:Illative case|illative]] || '' | | [[w:Illative case|illative]] || ''partavōn'' || ''paraukōn'' | ||
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| [[w:Illative case|illative]] || ''sennēn'' || ''setäkēn'' | | [[w:Illative case|illative]] || ''sennēn'' || ''setäkēn'' | ||
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| [[w:Nominative case|nominative]] || ''seusi'' || '' | | [[w:Nominative case|nominative]] || ''seusi'' || ''seussīk'' | ||
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| [[w:Accusative case|accusative]] || ''seussima'' || ''seusimma'' | | [[w:Accusative case|accusative]] || ''seussima'' || ''seusimma'' | ||
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| [[w:Nominative case|nominative]] || '' | | [[w:Nominative case|nominative]] || ''ňihke'' || ''ňihkēk'' | ||
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| [[w:Accusative case|accusative]] || '' | | [[w:Accusative case|accusative]] || ''ňihestä'' || ''ňihesne'' | ||
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| [[w:Genitive case|genitive]] || '' | | [[w:Genitive case|genitive]] || ''ňihkešu'' || ''ňiheltui'' | ||
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| [[w:Dative case|dative]] || '' | | [[w:Dative case|dative]] || ''ňihehcid'' || ''ňihkešīd'' | ||
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Revision as of 09:41, 1 July 2018
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 | ||
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Possessive suffixes
Instead of separate possessive pronouns, like English "my" or "her", West Carpathian uses special suffixes. The number of possessors and their person are distinguished. The notable feature is that if a possession is a subject or a direct object of a sentence, it would take a different possessive suffix, than a word in an another case (like genitive or dative). The following are the forms of oiva "head", declined to show possession:
person | number | Subject | Object | Other cases | Translation |
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first person | singular | oivasā | oivame | oiv(a)-vjad | my head |
plural | oivatōk | oivammō | oiv(a)-vnad | our head | |
second person | singular | oivasa | oivama | oiv(a)-vja | your (sing.) head |
plural | oivakēk | oivammē | oiv(a)-vna | your (pl.) head | |
third person | singular | oivasau | oivamau | oiv(a)-vjau | his/her/its head |
plural | oivapōk | oivammou | oiv(a)-vnou | their head |
Words written through the hyphen (-) indicates an insertion of a case ending. When used with cases other than nominative or accusative, a possessive suffix always comes after a case ending, so it is sometimes called a postfix. For example: utuovjau - "on his/her hand". When a plural number of a possession must be indicated, a plural ending is used instead of a singular one. If a word is a subject or a direct object of a sentence, then a corresponding plural ending is added before a possessive suffix: oivakēk - "their head", oivahkēk - "their heads" (the nominative plural ending -k changes into -h- due to a consonant gradation).
Declension types
There are as many as 20 noun declension types (called onnevinsātuarek "word bending patterns"). Most of these forms are archaic and more common ones are used instead by analogy. Words in nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and illative cases are represented in the table below. Here are some of the most common patterns:
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