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==Basics== | ==Basics== | ||
Aoma is a Verb-Subject-Object language with strong head-initiality (right-branching). The language has two numbers | Aoma is a Verb-Subject-Object language with strong head-initiality (right-branching). The language has two numbers, three persons, five cases and four genders. Very important to the speakers and the society is the formal register with polite forms of second person pronouns, honorifics and anti-honorifics. | ||
==Verbs== | ==Verbs== | ||
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==Nouns== | ==Nouns== | ||
Noun declension according to | Noun declension according to two numbers and five cases correlates with the four noun classes which are indicated by the last vowel: | ||
*divine ''a'' | *divine ''a'' | ||
*masculine ''y'' | *masculine ''y'' | ||
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'''Declension Table''' | '''Declension Table''' | ||
nominative, accusative, prepositional, dative and genitive | |||
Special cases: divine time noun group with temporal cases; some locative forms | |||
==Adjectives== | ==Adjectives== | ||
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'''Adjective Declension''' | '''Adjective Declension''' | ||
Always the same.? | |||
==Prepositions== | ==Prepositions== | ||
In Aoma, fusional prepositions also convey the word gender and definiteness through vowel change. Same prepositional stems have different ending consonants which give new meanings together with the case of the following word. | In Aoma, fusional prepositions also convey the word gender and definiteness through vowel change. Same prepositional stems have different ending consonants which give new meanings together with the case of the following word. k- a/u/y - /k/s + prep/gen/prep = at/into/from | ||
==Derivational Morphology== | ==Derivational Morphology== | ||