Khuamnisht
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| Khuamnisht | |
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| K̔uamništ | |
| Created by | – |
| Setting | Verse:Lõis |
Indo-European
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K̔uamništ (natively K̔uamništ goč̔ /kʰuəmniʃt goʰtʃ/) is an Azalic language. It is significantly more agglutinative than English.
Morphology
Nouns
K̔uamništ nouns fall into three declension classes. First declension nouns pluralize by slenderizing their final consonants, and second declension nouns pluralize by adding final -e. Most nouns belong to the third declension, where nouns pluralize in -t or -et.
Nouns in K̔uamništ have ten cases: ergative, absolutive, genitive, dative, instrumental, comitative, essive, locative, translative and distributive.
Verbs
| Weak: lov 'love' | Strong: bent 'bind' | Semi-strong: k̔olt 'grasp' | |
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| Imperative | lov! | bent! | k̔olt! |
| Present progressive and aorist | lovaš | bentaš | k̔oltaš |
| Present habitual | lovel | bentel | k̔oltel |
| Preterite | ollovaš | ebbentaš | okk̔oltaš |
| Subjunctive (PAz irrealis + *wekw-) | ollovač̔aš | ebbentač̔aš | okk̔oltač̔aš |
| Future (PAz irrealis + *h2el-) | lovlaš | bentlaš | k̔oltlaš |
| Perfect (PAz stative + *steh2-) | lovt̔aš | bentt̔aš | k̔oltt̔aš |
| Pluperfect (PAz stative + *ste-steh2-) | lovsat̔aš | bentsat̔aš | k̔oltsat̔aš |
| Active part. | lovnt̔ | bentnt̔ | k̔oltnt̔ |
| Passive part. | lovad | bentad | k̔oltad |