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 | iwju, ujwi || yː || Any
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+===Romanisation===
+[ø] is oe, [y] is y, long vowels are doubled, [t͡ʃ] and [ʃ] are c and š
 ==Grammar==
 Old Ynju is an very regular, SVO head-initial, agglutinative language, much like other Mittaali languages. Nouns follow Nominative-Accusative alignment and verbs are conjugated for mood, voice, tense and aspect.
+===Nouns===
+Nouns have following cases:<br>
+Nominative: no marking<br>
+Accutative: -but<br>
+Locative: -gul<br>
+Dative: -wa<br>
+Lative: -lak<br>
+Instrumental: -lyy<br>
+Comitative: -sfi<br>
+Genetive: -ca<br>
+Plural is formed by adding -gus after case suffix. For Accusative and Lative, last consonant is removed and -gus becomes -kkus Nominalisation is by adding suffix -li with lengthening of a vowel.
+===Verbs===
+Verbs are conjugated for mood, voice, tense and aspect (in this order). Old Ynju, like other Mittaali languages lacks infinitive. Imperative is formed by reduplicating the verb. Conditional by adding -gu, which also modifies certain vowel before it:
+{| Class="wikitable"
+! Before !! After
+|-
+| a < *a || u
+|-
+| o < *wa || wu
+|-
+| i < *i || a
+|-
+| e < *ja || y
+|-
+| y < *wi || o
+|-
+| øː < *iwja || yː
+|-
+| øː < *ajwa || eːwu
+|-
+| øː < *ujwa || yːwu
+|-
+| yː < *ujwi || øː
+|}
+Passive voice is formed by adding -mri, Middle voice by adding -gut. Following tense suffixes are reconstructed:<br>Present tense is unmarked<br>Past: -lja<br>Future: -cu<br>Perfective aspect is unmarked, while Imperfective is marked with -fsa. Habitual is formed by suffix -mu with lengthening of a vowel.
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