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===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
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Suffixes ''ma'' (for ABS) and ''noh'' (for ERG) are used to emphasize either the agent or the object: ''Ónzaitón dothee'''noh''' pof.'' (It is the man who's lifting the feather) vs. ''Ónzaitón dothee pof'''ma'''.'' (It is the feather that the man is lifting.). ''Ma'' is also used with verbs in antipassive constructions. | Suffixes ''ma'' (for ABS) and ''noh'' (for ERG) are used to emphasize either the agent or the object: ''Ónzaitón dothee'''noh''' pof.'' (It is the man who's lifting the feather) vs. ''Ónzaitón dothee pof'''ma'''.'' (It is the feather that the man is lifting.). ''Ma'' is also used with verbs in antipassive constructions. | ||
===Pronouns=== | |||
Pronouns are used to refer people or nouns mentioned before. In Sceptrian, they exist in two numbers and are inflected according to six [[Sceptrian#Cases|'''cases''']]. | |||
====Personal==== | |||
Second person includes polite versions as well which were adapted by Aoma-sperkers. Third person singular makes distinction between abstract (Ab), animate (An) and inanimate (In) pronouns while plural only between Ab-An and In. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+ Pronoun inflection | |||
|- | |||
! Case !! 1SG !! 2SG !! 3SG.Ab !! 3SG.An !! 3SG.In !! 1PL !! 2PL !! 3PL.A !! 3PL.In !! 2SG.POL !! 2PL.POL | |||
|- | |||
!ABS | |||
| na || fo || tha || su || hi || mo || po || slo || kwo || Nith || With | |||
|- | |||
!ERG | |||
| nae || foe || thaa || suu || hii || moslo || poslo || sloslo || kwoslo || Nithe || Widhes | |||
|- | |||
!DAT | |||
| nai || foki || thai || swi || hiki || mokli || pokli || slokli || kwokli || Nithki || Withkli | |||
|- | |||
!POS | |||
| nar || for || thar || sur || hir || moŕ || poŕ || sloŕ || kwoŕ || Nithor || Withoŕ | |||
|- | |||
!CAU | |||
| napa || fopo || thapa || supu || hipi ||moplo || poplo || sloplo || kwoplo || Nitto || Witto | |||
|} | |||
'''Causal case''' describes the cause of an action or origin of something: ''Aitelai nae su fopo'' (I saw him because of (/thanks to) you), ''Hi supu foki.'' (It (is) from him to you.). | |||
===Table of correlatives=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
!rowspan="2"| | |||
!rowspan="2"|Interrogative | |||
!colspan="2"|Demonstrative | |||
!colspan="5"|Quantifier | |||
|- | |||
!Proximal !! Distal | |||
! | |||
|- | |||
!colspan="2"| Determiner | |||
| || | |||
|- | |||
!rowspan="4"| Pronoun | |||
! | |||
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|} | |||