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==Morphology==
==Morphology==
Sjowaazhéñ is an agglutinative-fusional language. Words are significantly shorter than in Navajo.
Sjowaazhéñ is an agglutinative language. Words are significantly shorter than in Navajo.
===Nouns===
===Nouns===
Nouns are inflected for number and case/state.
Nouns are inflected for number and cases; there are 9 cases.
 
Nouns in the absolute state are inflected in nominative and genitive cases. The case inflections are only used for the last noun in a construct noun phrase. For a possessed noun, the construct state is used. The singular and plural also have different case-state affixes.
 
====Animate nouns====
====Animate nouns====
====Inanimate nouns====
====Inanimate nouns====