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==Grammar==
==Grammar==
Main word order: Subject - Oblique - Object - Verb
Kukʉp uses Subject-Oblique-Object-Verb for word order, with adjectives placed before nouns and suffixes used when adpositions are necessary.
 
* "Mary opened the red door with a key" = ''Mary with a key the red door opened.''
 
===Nouns===
Kukʉp uses gender (Person, Land, Sea, Sky) to indicate the source of nouns. While nouns will be assumed to have a particular gender ('''ee''' means wood and is normally Land gendered), gender can be changed to show that a specific noun came from a different source (Sea gendered wood might indicate drift wood, while Person gendered wood would imply that someone shaped or carved the wood in question).
 
====Noun Morphology====
Kukʉp is an ergative-absolutive language, meaning the ''object'' of a transitive verb and the single core ''argument'' of an intransitive verb are treated the same ('''absolutive'''), while the ''agent'' of a transitive verb is treated differently ('''ergative'''). In English, this would read as follows:
 
* He (''agent'') found me (''object'').
* Him (''argument'') traveled.
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; width:600px;"
! colspan="2"|
! colspan="2"|Singular
! colspan="2"|Plural
|-
! rowspan="4"|Absolutive
!Person
|child
|'''nevo''' /’nevɒ/
|children
|Suffix: '''-(e)t''' /-(ɛ)t/<br />'''nevot''' /’nevɒt/
|-
!Land
|tree
|'''erku''' /’ɛɾku/
|trees
|Suffix: '''-(u)ri''' /-(u)ɾi/<br />'''erkuri''' /ɛɾ’kuɾi/
|-
!Sea
|fish
|'''ʉre''' /’ʉɾɛ/
|fishes
|Suffix: '''-(ʉ)p''' /-(ʉ)p/<br />'''ʉrep''' /’ʉɾɛp/
|-
!Sky
|bird
|'''roi''' /’ɾoi/
|birds
|Suffix: '''-(u)re''' /uɾe/<br />'''roire''' /ɾo’iɾe/
|-
! rowspan="4"|Ergative
!Person
|child
|Suffix: '''-a''' /-a/<br />'''nevoa''' /ne’vɒa/
|children
|Suffix: '''-(ʉ)re''' /ʉɾe/<br />'''nevore''' /ne’vɒɾe/
|-
!Land
|tree
|Suffix: '''-(i)t''' /-(i)t/<br />'''erkut''' /ɛɾ’kut/
|trees
|Suffix: '''-(ʉ)'''t /-(ʉ)t/<br />'''erkut''' /ɛɾ’kut/
|-
!Sea
|fish
|Suffix: '''-(o)v''' /-(ɒ)v/<br />'''ʉrev''' /’ʉɾɛv/
|fishes
|Suffix: '''-(ʉ)' ''' /-(ʉ)ʔ/<br />'''ʉre’ ''' /’ʉɾɛʔ/
|-
!Sky
|bird
|Suffix: '''-i''' /-i/<br />'''roii''' /ɾo’ii/
|birds
|Suffix: '''-(u)p''' /-(u)p/<br />'''roip''' /’ɾoip/
|}


==Vocabulary==
==Vocabulary==
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