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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
Proto Mittaali is reconstructed as SVO, head initial agglutinative language with nominative-accusative alignment(like most of its descendants). | Proto Mittaali is reconstructed as SVO, head initial agglutinative language with nominative-accusative alignment(like most of its descendants). | ||
==Nouns== | ===Nouns=== | ||
Following noun cases are reconstructed:<br> | Following noun cases are reconstructed:<br> | ||
Nominative: no marking<br> | Nominative: no marking<br> | ||
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Genetive: *-tja<br> | Genetive: *-tja<br> | ||
Plural is formed by adding -kus after case suffix | Plural is formed by adding -kus after case suffix | ||
===Verbs=== | |||
Verbs are conjugated for mood, voice, tense and aspect (in this order). Like any modern languages, Proto-Mittaali lacks infinitive. Imperative formed by reduplicating the verb. Conditional by adding -qu. Passive voice is formed by adding -mri, Middle voice by adding -kut. Following tense suffixes are reconstructed:<br>Present tense is unmarked<br>Past: -lka<br>Future: -kju<br>Perfective aspect is unmarked, while Imperfective is marked with -fsa. Habitual is formed by suffix -xmu. | |||
[[Category:Proto-languages]] | [[Category:Proto-languages]] | ||