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+Similarly to consonants, vowels have geminated forms marked with special graphemes so that glottal stop is indicated by writing the short graphemes separately. Since i, æ and œ are often written over preceding consonants, there is a special glottal stop grapheme for them.
+==Basics==
+Aoma is a Verb-Subject-Object language with strong head-initiality (right-branching). The language has two numbers (Singular and Plural), three persons (first, second and third), five cases (nominative, accusative, prepositional, dative and genitive) and four genders (divine, masculine, feminine and neuter). Important to the speakers and the society is the formal register with Polite forms of second person pronouns, honorifics and anti-honorifics.
+Verbs are conjugated according to person, number, tense, aspect, mood which are indicated by suffixes, prefixes and reduplication. There are three conjugations: vowel-ending (''a''/''o'' and ''e''), consonant-ending (''m'' and ''tes''/''kes''/''hes'') and irregular which do show characteristics of either first or second conjugation.
+Noun declension according to number and case correlates with the four noun classes which are indicated by the last vowel: divine ''a'', masculine ''y'', feminine ''u'' and neuter ''i''. The declension is shown with suffixes and apophony.
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