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Grammar

Noun Inflections

The primitive case suffixes are:

Role	Suffix	Notes
Absolutive	-Ø	Often used in place of the genitive and objective.
Nominative	-no	Can be used as a genitive
Objective	-ni	Can be used for datives if the absolutive is being used for the direct object.
Lative	-e
Partitive	-Te (de)	Can be used as a locative and plural suffix
Comitative	-la	Can be used as a locative and plural suffix
Essive	-na	Can be used as an instrumental, acts like Japanese -de

More complex cases can be formed using spacial nouns and combinations of -ni, -e, -Te and -la.

Phrase-final clitics

The following clitics are able to be added onto the end of a larger phrase and do not act as case particles necessarily.

Meaning/role	Clitic	Notes
Questions, "or"	-me(e), -mai, -ma	from older -ma-i
Or, and, but	-že (ze)	(je, ze?)
And, also, too	-mo
Also, even, too	-Ki (gi)
And, introducing new topics	-va

Pronouns

Person	Singular	Plural
1st person	mïn	maa
2nd person	tïn	taa
2nd person (honorific)	nei	nei, neinei
3rd person (human)	nin, lin ("fellow")	ikko ("group")
3rd person (animate)	yaya	yeye
3rd person (inanimate)	too (dimin. noo)	tee (dimin. nee)

Vocabulary

• bilu - cloud, also see kuruma
• dul(u) - meadow
• kalka - copper (and by extension used for bronze, cf. tuč)
• kot (kut, kudo, kota?) - house, tent, chum, goahti, yurt, tipi
• koč(i) - flower
• kuru - roll
• kuruma - clouds (in the sense of rolling clouds)
• kurumi - wheel (kuru-mi, mi = tool suffix)
• kus(u), kuš(i) - duck, goose, waterfowl
• miš(i) - cat
• moo - tree
• nam(u) - tree, wood
• ne - meow, cry made by a small animal or child
• nok(u) (nuk(u)? nuka?) - (wild) dog (housedog = inoku)
• saran(i) - gold
• šuvu - falcon, lightly built bird of prey
• teme - camel
• tuč(i) - bronze, cf. kalka
• yur(u) - house