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Notes about orthography and beginning of nominal morphology
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*In both alphabets, long vowels are written as double letters (aa,:ии, уу, aa, ii, uu). | |||
*Double кь and нг were written кькь and нгнг, respectively. | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
Nouns decline in eight different cases: absolutive, ergative, instrumental, allative, ablative, locative, perlative and similative. | |||
====Ergative==== | |||
The ergative is used to mark the subject of a transitive sentence and to mark the genitive, specifically, marking the possessor of a possessed entity, except in sentences like "is my X", where the ergative falls in the pronoun. | |||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||