Lyaib Nouns

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Cases

Lyaib nouns start with a case prefix that can modify the beginning of the noun stem. Unless the case is obvious because (for instance) an accusative noun directly follows a transitive verb, or a possessor directly follows the possession (with the particle übf in between).

There are 5 cases with a definiteness distinction: indefinite for what hasn't been mentioned yet, topic for what was mentioned as the topic of a preceding sentence, and definite for other things that have been mentioned before.

• Nominative case is used for the subject of a sentence
• Accusative case is used for the object of a transitive verb
• Dative case is used for the beneficiary of an action
• Locative case is used for an approximate location
• Directive case is used for an approximate direction (also metaphorically)

The other cases indicate exact locations or directions. They are not marked with combined case-definiteness prefixes, but with case prepositions and definiteness prefixes.

	Topic	Definite	Indefinite
Nominative	mbibf-	ïib-	ïbf-
Accusative	mbojy-	öigy-	öjy-
Dative	bóujy-	bfógy-	óugy-
Locative	ögh-	orh-	gyough-
Directive	bfiz-	bfïd-	bfïuz-
PREFIX	ëgh-	erh-	eigh-

Noun Classes

There are 33 noun classes in Lyaib, which are not reflected in the nouns, but in verb (and adjective) declensions. For nouns describing persons, several noun classes can be possible. The right choice depends on the person's sex and the speaker's politeness towards that person.

1. Introduction
2. Pronunciation
3. Alphabet
4. Nouns
5. Verbs
6. Adjectives
7. Pronouns
8. Attributive Clauses
9. Derivational Morphology
10. Word Order
11. Vocabulary
12. Sample Text

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