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 ===Nominal morphology===
 Nouns and adjectives had retained from Proto-Zachydic 6 cases (nominative, accusative, genitive/prepositional, allative, ablative, locative/instrumental), 3 numbers, 2 genders (masculine, feminine), and additionally possessive inflection for nouns. Like its daughter languages as well as Proto-Zachydic, Common Talmic is thought to have been a [[w:differential object marking|differential object marking]] language; only definite or specific direct objects were marked with the accusative case.
-[Genitive is partitive > indefinite?]
-{| class="greentable lightgreenbg" style="width: 550px; text-align: center;"
-|+'''Declension'''
-!scope="col"|
-! colspan="6" scope="col"|''*çúma=ʔ'' 'air'
-! colspan="6" scope="col"|''*méisar'' 'segment'
-|-
-!scope="col"|Gender →
-! colspan="6" scope="col"|Masculine
-! colspan="6" scope="col"|Feminine
-|-
-!scope="col"|Case ↓
-!colspan="2" scope="col"|Singular
-!colspan="2" scope="col"|Dual
-!colspan="2" scope="col"|Plural
-!colspan="2" scope="col"|Singular
-!colspan="2" scope="col"|Dual
-!colspan="2" scope="col"|Plural
-|-
-!scope="col"|Nominative
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*çúma''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*çúmōr''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*çúmū''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*méisar''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*méisoir''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*méisāne''
-|-
-!scope="col"|Accusative
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*çúmeç''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*çúmōç''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*çúmūt''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*méisaç''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*méisoiç''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*méisina''
-|-
-!scope="col"|Genitive/Prepositional
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*çúmu''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*çúmār''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*çúmakʰe''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*méiset''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*méisair''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*méis(in)ir''
-|-
-!scope="col"|Ablative
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*çúmenʔ''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*méisanʔ''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|
-|-
-!scope="col"|Allative
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|?
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|?
-|-
-!scope="col"|Instrumental
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*çúmīl''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|''*méisai''
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|
-|colspan="2" scope="col"|
-|}
 The essive case (''*-ēri'') was marginal, and was only used adverbially (cf. Th. ''-ēr'' adverbial suffix).