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==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
Proto-Azzanic had Philippine alignment as does Rozzino and ʔAškāsīnių. Verb-initial clauses were the norm as in Semitic and Austronesian languages. | |||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
Nouns and adjectives declined for three cases: direct, indirect and genitive. | |||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
There was an emphatic clitic ''=is'' added to verbs. | Verbs had an extensive trigger system marked by various binyanim. Verbs also inflected for the tense and subject (the argument in the direct case). There was an emphatic clitic ''=is'' added to verbs. | ||
===Syntax=== | |||
[[Category:Hussmauch]][[Category:Azzanic languages|*]][[Category:Root-and-pattern languages]] | [[Category:Hussmauch]][[Category:Azzanic languages|*]][[Category:Root-and-pattern languages]] | ||