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Like many other Lúsanic languages Dhannúa has preserved an Indo-European synthetic-inflectional structure. Although there has been considerable change, certain words remain relatively unchanged from their theorised ancestor, such as the word for flower ''bhlór'' (reconstructed [[w:Proto-Indo-European language|'''PIE''':]]''*Bʰleh³-os''). | Like many other Lúsanic languages Dhannúa has preserved an Indo-European synthetic-inflectional structure. Although there has been considerable change, certain words remain relatively unchanged from their theorised ancestor, such as the word for flower ''bhlór'' (reconstructed [[w:Proto-Indo-European language|'''PIE''':]]''*Bʰleh³-os''). | ||
===Morphology=== | ===Morphology=== | ||
Aurónian has six noun cases – [[w:Nominative_case|nominative]], [[w:Genitive_case|genitive]], [[w:Accusative_case|accusative]], [[w:Dative case|dative]], [[w:Essive_case|essive]], [[w:Comitative_case|comitative]] - of which the first four are inherited from Indo-European. The remaining two, the essive and comitative are innovations common to the [[Lúsanic_languages|Finio-Dhannic languages]]. Certain words appear to preserve a seventh case - the instrumental - but it is extremely rare to encounter this form in modern literature. | |||
There are two [[w:Grammatical number|numbers]] - singular and plural - although certain words are only encountered in one of these. [[w:Grammatical gender|Grammatical gender]] appears to be in process of disappearing from the language, Dhannuá originally having had three - masculine, feminine, neuter - but now tendencies to merge the first two are becoming increasingly prevalent in certain forms of the spoken language. | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="background:#F0F0F0" | |||
! style="background:#99CCFF" colspan="6" | '''Example declension''' | |||
|- | |||
! style="background:#99CCFF" colspan="1" | ''Gloss'' || style="background:#99CCFF" colspan ="5" | <span style="color:#008000">flower</span> | |||
|- | |||
! style="background:#8691FF" colspan="0" | Number || style="background:#8691FF" colspan="2" | Singular || style="background:#8691FF" colspan="2" | Plural | |||
|- | |||
! style="background:#99CCFF" colspan="1" | Nominative (anómaniú) | |||
| colspan="2" | bhlór || colspan="2" | bhleir | |||
|- | |||
! style="background:#99CCFF" colspan="1" | Genitive (niriú) | |||
| colspan="2" | bhlóar || colspan="2" | bhlóru | |||
|- | |||
! style="background:#99CCFF" colspan="1" | Dative (datiú) | |||
| colspan="2" | bhlód || colspan="2" | bhléd | |||
|- | |||
! style="background:#99CCFF" colspan="1" | Accusative (acusatiú) | |||
| colspan="2" | bhlónn || colspan="2" | bhlóranna | |||
|- | |||
! style="background:#99CCFF" colspan="1" | Essive (issóiú) | |||
| colspan="2" | bhlóta || colspan="2" | bhlóradh | |||
|- | |||
! style="background:#99CCFF" colspan="1" | Comitative (ueiú) | |||
| colspan="2" | bhlórúe || colspan="2" | bhleirúe | |||
|- | |||
! style="background:#99CCFF" colspan="1" | Instrumental (aissiú) | |||
| colspan="2" | bhlóri || colspan="2" | bhlórí | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
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