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Nominative is unmarked, and corresponds to the functions of subject, attribute of the subject, but also other functions which are not covered by accusative and dative cases. Accusative corresponds to the function of direct object of a verb and is marked with a prefix which is different depending on the animatedness status of the noun : the prefix will be ''ke''- (or ''k''- before a vowel) in the case of an inanimate noun, and ''dake''- (or ''dak''- before a vowel) in the case of an animate noun. Genitive corresponds to the "possessor" of something and is marked with a suffix ''-o'' for inanimate nouns (transformed into [w] after a vowel) and ''-do'' for animate nouns, although if the stem ends in a consonant diverse morphophonological changes take place depending on that consonant : aspirated plosives lose their aspiration ; voiceless obstruents become voiced ; the palatal nasal gets partially assimilated and turns into ''n'' ; the voiced velar fricative gets partially assimilated and turns into the plosive ''g'' (its distribution being limited to V_V contexts) ; prenasalised occlusives get totally nasalised (their distribution being limited to _V contexts) ; the bilabial fricative becomes a labio-velar approximan [w] ; and there's gemination with the dental occlusives : [dd]. Those changes are usually not reflected in the orthography.