Op'on Nouns

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Nouns are only declined in case. Number and gender are given in articles. A noun phrase must contain an article or a pronoun.

Cases

There are five cases in 7th-millennium Okyyryn:

• Absolutive is for the subject of intransitive verbs or the object of transitive verbs.
• Ergative is for the subject of transitive verbs.
• Dative is for beneficiaries and recipients.
• Locative is for locations.
• Directive is for directions.

Op'on is not an agglutinating language. Inflected nouns have a different pronunciation, but the way it is pronounced cannot be easily predicted. As a rule of thumb, diphthongize the stressed vowel in ergative, dative and locative case. Add a ß at the end in ergative case. Further modifications:

• Absolutive: nothing
• Ergative and dative: P' or I
• Locative: CH or I
• Directive: P' or OO

Indefinite articles

	common	neuter
singular	puj	piijch
plural	ruj	fiij

Definite articles

	common	neuter
singular	fu	liich
plural	ru	fu

1. Introduction
2. History
3. Pronunciation
4. Alphabet
5. Nouns
6. Verbs
7. Pronouns
8. Derivational Morphology
9. Word Order
10. Complex Phrases
11. Vocabulary
12. Sample Text
13. Numbers

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