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When the subject is the third person and has a lower animacy than the object and vice versa, then the third inverse person marker is used. Sometimes this marker may be fused to the stem in old verbs. According to another analysis of these suffixes, the actual third singular person marker (both direct and inverse) is zero and vowels -e-/-i- appear during alterations in the stem of the verb. | When the subject is the third person and has a lower animacy than the object and vice versa, then the third inverse person marker is used. Sometimes this marker may be fused to the stem in old verbs. According to another analysis of these suffixes, the actual third singular person marker (both direct and inverse) is zero and vowels -e-/-i- appear during alterations in the stem of the verb. | ||
===Postpositions=== | |||
Yrkyr uses postpositions, some of which can be attached to nouns in the locative case, to mark various spatial and temporal relations. If standalone, all prepositions must take a person suffix, which is the same as possessive suffixes of nouns. For example: ''neke'' "away from it", ''kʷaŋ'' "towards me", ''čittyšihaskʷa'' "towards that stone". | |||
===Numerals=== | |||
Like the Mtari language, Yrkyr uses a '''decimal''' (base-10) numeral system. Only numerals from one to four are local, higher numerals are borrowed from Mtari. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! !! base numeral | |||
| rowspan="11" style="background-color: lightgrey;" | | |||
! colspan="2" | +10 | |||
| rowspan="11" style="background-color: lightgrey;" | | |||
! colspan="2" | x10 | |||
|- | |||
! 1 | |||
| pej || ektani || (11) | |||
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | – | |||
|- | |||
! 2 | |||
| lakʷ || sylyktani || (12) || sylkanihs || (20) | |||
|- | |||
! 3 | |||
| lheš || jaxtani || (13) || jaxanihs || (30) | |||
|- | |||
! 4 | |||
| mes || uxoštani || (14) || uxosanihs || (40) | |||
|- | |||
! 5 | |||
| ahat || ahattani || (15) || axtanihs || (50) | |||
|- | |||
! 6 | |||
| ahm || amytani || (16) || ahmanihs || (60) | |||
|- | |||
! 7 | |||
| iwom || umytani || (17) || umonihs || (70) | |||
|- | |||
! 8 | |||
| šijom || šijtani || (18) || šijonihs || (80) | |||
|- | |||
! 9 | |||
| sytyneh || syttani || (19) || sytkemys || (90) | |||
|- | |||
! 10 | |||
| nihs | |||
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | – | |||
| kehm || (100) | |||
|} | |||
Words for hundreds and even higher numbers are formed in the same way (''-kehm'' is added to make hundreds, ''-mek'' - for tens of thousands and ''-kyrom'' - for millions). In the compound numerals the lesser numeral is simply put after the bigger one: ''sylkanihs ahm'' - "twenty six". In order to make an ordinal numeral, the prefix ''tla-'' is added to the corresponding cardinal numeral. Exceptions are ''lapyn'' - "first", ''tlakʷa'' "second" and ''tlaš'' - "third". | |||
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