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==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
Camalanàbha is an agglutinative, ergative, head-final language | Camalanàbha is an agglutinative, ergative, head-final language. | ||
The three core cases are absolutive, ergative and genitive. Other morphological cases arise from a suffixed preposition on one of these three cases, and many more "case" markers exist that are not morphological cases. | The three core cases are absolutive, ergative and genitive. Other morphological cases arise from a suffixed preposition on one of these three cases, and many more "case" markers exist that are not morphological cases (read: prepositions). | ||
* ''nàbha'' 'speech (abs)' | * ''nàbha'' 'speech (abs)' | ||
* ''nàbhala'' 'speech (erg)' | * ''nàbhala'' 'speech (erg)' | ||