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 * /uː/ → {{angbr|ü, ū}}
 ==Morphology==
+Riagi is a predominantly agglutinative language with a fair share of fusion
+===Nouns===
+==== ''Cases'' ====
+{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="text-align:center;"
+|-
+! rowspan="2" colspan="2"|
+! Case
+| '''Agentive'''
+|'''Patientive'''
+| '''Instrumental'''
+| '''Locative'''
+| '''Benefactive'''
+| '''Origative'''
+| '''Metative'''
+|-
+! Abbrev
+| '''-'''
+| '''PAT'''
+| '''INS'''
+| '''LOC'''
+| '''BEN'''
+| '''ORI'''
+| '''MET'''
+|-
+! Case
+! Abbrev
+! Affix
+| '''-ø'''
+| '''-o'''
+| '''-oe'''
+| '''-ae'''
+| '''-a'''
+| '''-i'''
+| '''-ui'''
+|-
+| '''Nominative'''
+| '''NOM'''
+| '''-ø'''
+| ø
+| -o
+| -oe
+| -ae
+| -a
+| -i
+| -ui
+|-
+| '''Absolutive'''
+| '''ABS'''
+| '''-t'''
+|
+| -to
+| -toe
+| -tae
+| -ta
+| -ti
+| -tui
+|-
+| '''Dative'''
+| '''DAT'''
+| '''-m'''
+|
+| -mo
+| -moe
+| -mae
+| -ma
+| -mi
+| -mui
+|}
+=====Argument Cases=====
+* Nominative
+*: Marks the agent of a transitive verb and the active subject of an intransitive verb
+* Absolutive
+*: Marks the object of a transitive verb and the passive subject of an intransitive verb
+* Dative
+*: Marks the indirect objects of a verb
+=====Thematic Cases=====
+*Agentive
+*: Marks the entity which carries out the action, this theme is exclusive to the nominative case.
+*Patientive
+*: Marks the patient or theme, that is the entity that undergoes the action
+*Instrumental
+*: Marks the instrument or entity with which the action was carried out, this can be a tool or a person.
+*Locative
+*: Marks the location or time at which the action was performed
+*Benefactive
+*: Marks the entity for whose benefit the action occurs, this includes recipients with verbs that express change of possession
+*Origative
+*: Marks the place, time, motive or cause from which the action originated
+*Metative
+*: Marks the direction, purpose or objective towards which the action aims
 === Verbs ===
 ==== ''Coverbs'' ====
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 :Used when employing the verb as an adjective or adverb
-===Nouns===
-==== ''Gender'' ====
-There are five different genders depending on the complexity of the soul of the object.
-;Divine gender
-:Guardians, Patrons, Gods and Titans
-;High gender
-:Humans and other sentient beings
-;Medium gender
-:Animals, spirits and machines
-;Low gender
-:Plants, 'lucks' and 'seers'
-;Inanimate gender
-:Everything else
-Groups of objects are assigned the highest gender available in the group, i.e.: a forest is of Medium gender as it has animals.
-==== ''Noun Cases'' ====
-Nouns can be marked for up to two cases, an argument case and a thematic case
-*Argument Cases
-**Nominative ({{smallcaps|nom}}): Agent, defaults to Agentive thematic case
-**Absolutive ({{smallcaps|abs}}): Object, defaults to Patientive thematic case
-**Dative ({{smallcaps|dat}}): Indirect object, defaults to Benefactive thematic case
-*Thematic Cases
-**Agentive ({{smallcaps|-}}): Agent (exclusive to the nominative case)
-**Patientive ({{smallcaps|pat}}): Patient, Theme
-**Instrumental ({{smallcaps|ins}}): Intrument, Sociate
-**Locative ({{smallcaps|loc}}): Location, Time
-**Benefactive ({{smallcaps|ben}}): Beneficiary, Recipient
-**Origative ({{smallcaps|ori}}): Origin, Source, Cause
-**Metative ({{smallcaps|met}}): Goal, Direction, Purpose
 ==== ''Pronouns'' ====
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 ===Adverbs===
 ===Numerals===
 ==Derivational morphology==
 ===Nouns===