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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. | 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'') | ==Verbs== | ||
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'') | |||
*irregular which do show characteristics of either first or second conjugation | |||
'''Conjugation Table''' | |||
==Nouns== | |||
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'' | |||
*neuter ''i''. | |||
The declension is shown with suffixes added to the stem gotten by removing the nominative vowel ending. | |||
'''Declension Table''' | |||
==Adjectives== | |||
Many adjectives are formed from nouns simply by adding ''e'' to the genitive case. This is sometimes called the adjective case or adjective form of a noun. | |||
'''Adjective Declension''' | |||
==Prepositions== | |||
In Aoma, fusional prepositions also convey the word gender and definiteness through vowel change. Same prepositional stems have different ending consonants which give new meanings together with the case of the following word. | |||
==Derivational Morphology== | |||
Aoma uses suffixes, gemination and apophony to create new words from existing ones. Same noun stems often occur in all four classes. Most important are the eight elemental nouns: | |||
*(divine noun, verb, (secondary verb,) masculine, feminine, neuter, adjective form, colour form) | |||
*gesha [gɛʃa] (life), gesse (live), geshy (brain), geshu (heart), geshi (nature), geshare (lively, active), geshari (yellow) | |||
*tösha (death), tösse (die), töshy (soldier), töshu (disease), töshi (war), töshare (still, silent), töshari (purple) | |||
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