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===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Nouns=== | |||
Enkesh nouns are agglutinates of basic words, a bit like how some German words are constructed(such as German ''Fernseher'', "television", lit. "far-seer"). An Enkesh example of this would be a word like ''[[Contionary:otiqaöpinád|otiqaöpinád]]'', meaning "front yard/lawn", which is comprised of the words ''[[Contionary:otiqa|otiqa]]''(green), ''[[Contionary:öpin|öpin]]''(front, front-facing), and the locative case suffix ''-ád'', so, a literal translation would be ''green-front-<small>LOC</small>''. | |||
====Cases==== | |||
Enkesh uses noun case declensions to describe nouns. Of these, Enkesh has six noun cases: the '''nominative''', '''ergative''', '''accusative''', '''dative''', '''genitive''' and '''locative'''. All of them, excluding the nominative, are indicated using a distinct suffix. | |||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | |||
|+ Enkesh noun case declensions | |||
|- | |||
! colspan=2 | !! Suffix | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan=7 | Case | |||
|- | |||
! Nominative | |||
| ∅ | |||
|- | |||
! Ergative | |||
| ''-iw'' | |||
|- | |||
! Accusative | |||
| ''-né'' | |||
|- | |||
! Dative | |||
| ''-ttuné'' | |||
|- | |||
! Genitive | |||
| ''-kö'' | |||
|- | |||
! Locative | |||
| ''-ád'' | |||
|} | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||