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==Grammar==

===Morphology===

Verbs are inflected for tense (present, past, future), mood (indicative, optative, imperative), and voice (active, passive). Generally, verbal roots are of the fashion CVC- which are then built on to form the relevant mood-inflected stem either by a process of vowel lengthening or by aspiration of the final consonant. These are the conjugated finitely by affixing voice, person and tense markers.

The infinitive of purpose ({{sc|prps}}) is formed by adding ''-áyim'' to the root. This form is used in conjunction with verbs of motion to indicate purpose.

:''zirakáyim azfârún êbuyâkhrôm'' ‘I travel to the fortress to explore’  

Nouns are marked for both case and number. The inflections always fully harmonise with the final vowel in the word stem with the exception of the possessive case, which only does so partially. There is an opposition between front ('''e''', '''i''') and back vowels ('''a''', '''o''', '''u''') which is reflected in the final vowel of the polysyllabic suffixes ('''a/u''' vs. '''i'''). All but the final vowel harmonises with the vowel of the last syllable in a word. A word with a nominative ending in '''-â''' will in the accusative plural have ''-amaz''. Likewise, a word ending in '''-ô''' will have ''-omaz'' as its accusative plural.

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