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== Morphology == | == Morphology == | ||
=== Nouns === | === Nouns === | ||
Nouns fall into 3 genders ( | Nouns fall into 3 genders (human, animate and inanimate) and have number (sg, du, pl), case (abs erg gen lat loc voc) and construct state independently. Construct state forms are unpredictable and comes from proto-forms that had a different stress pattern than absolute forms. | ||
The locative is used with prepositions to indicate location and is the default prepositional case; when the lative is used the same prepositions indicate destination, and when the ergative is used they indicate "motion from". | The locative is used with prepositions to indicate location and is the default prepositional case; when the lative is used the same prepositions indicate destination, and when the ergative is used they indicate "motion from". | ||