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====Noun-adjective order====

Noun-adjective order is even more controversial, due to even linguistically similar languages like [[Siwè]] and [[Adi Adi]] differing on specifically adjective placement. Thus, Tassinists generally agree to not speak of noun-adjective order, assuming instead a free constituent order, for the sake of collaboration and often friendship.

===Noun phrase===

===Nouns===

====Cases====

Proto-Tassinean has seven noun cases: '''nominative''', '''ergative''', '''absolutive''', '''dative''', '''genitive''', '''instrumentative''' and '''locative''', and they are all subject to change based on the four tenses: '''present''', '''imperfect''', and '''future''' and '''conditional''', and they are identified by prefixes and suffixes.

{| class=redtable lightredbg style="text-align: center;"

! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | !! colspan=7 | Case

|-

! Nominative !! Ergative !! Absolutive !! Dative !! Genitive !! Instrumentative !! Locative

|-

! rowspan=5 | Tense

|-

! Present

| - || ''*soh-'' || ''*-vir'' || ''*-Nir'' || ''*-sə'' || rowspan=4 | ''*gid-'' || ''*-wē''

|-

! Imperfect

| ''*-zih<sup>?</sup>'' || ''*ma-'' || ''*-Nēŋ'' || ''*-avī'' || ''*-yrn'' || ''*-aw''

|-

! Future

| rowspan=2 | - || ''*me-'' || ''*-seh'' || rowspan=2 | ''*ga-'' || ''*-ȳs'' || ''*-hnō''

|-

! Conditional

| ''*miN-'' || ''*-vāha'' || ''*-fāsi'' || ''*-ewn''

|}

====Noun phrase====

===Verb phrase===

===Sentence phrase===

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