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==Grammar==

Flewtish is a [[w:Polysynthetic language|polysynthetic language]], using [[w:Circumfix|circumfixes]] or other [[w:Affix|affixes]] to change word meaning, or show different grammatical functions. Some dialects tend towards a more moderate, [[w:Agglutinative language|agglutinative]] model (By using fewer morphemes per word than other dialects), however the principle of affixation is shared between all dialects.

In addition, Flewtish contains an animate-inanimate distinction. If any part of speech within a sentence is animate, the subject, object and verb must take the ''-ü'' suffix.

===Consonant harmony===

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| All nasals, sibilants, (post-)alveolars, dentals (undergoing fortition to become plosives, e.g., /ð/ to /d/), approximants, bilabials, /v/, /l/ and /p/

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===Nouns===

There are 10 cases (12 if dialectal ones are included) in Flewtish, formed usually with the use of an affix (For example: ''The apple: Hetceńe'', '''I ate the apple: Wo jepgo hetceńem'''), with the exception of the nominative case which doesn't need any inflection directly. The exact suffixes can be found below, in the "Cases" section.

Similarly, possession is shown with a suffix.

{| class="wikitable"

|+ Possession Suffixes in Flewtish

|-

! Suffix !! Rough English Translation !! Example

|-

| -mno || Mine || hetceńemno

|-

| -ði || Your || hetceńedi*

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| -muk || His/Hers/Its || hetceńemuk

|-

| ne-, -mno || Our || nehetceńemno

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| ne-, -sci || Your (plural) || nehetceńesci

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| ne- -ktu || Their || nehetceńe

|}

<small>''* See section '''Consonant harmony'''''</small>

===Pronouns===

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