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 == Name of the language ==
 The name of the language, ''Tova'', means 'general people', as in 'language of the general people'.
+== History of the language ==
+Tova's history is not very well known or described, but it is known that Tova is a descendant of the older [[Classical Tova language|Classical Tova]] language. Not much is known about the Classical Tova language, except for the fact that it was written in the Imujastunu script, the same script used to write Modern Tova, and that it is very similar to Modern Tova in many areas except for vocabulary and syntax.
+Many Alhi loanwords have entered Tova's vocabulary from contact and conflict, especially when the Kingdom of Alloti took control of the Dominion of Dulama. Tova was suppressed, and usage of it was met with punishment, but since Alloti's transition to a democratic republic, these restrictions were relaxed, and Tova eventually became the most spoken language in Southern Alloti. The usage of the Oulaj script for Tova eventually became obsolete, and the native Imujastunu script became the primary one.
+== Grammar ==
+Tova has a highly synthetic and fusional morphological structure. Verbs are arguably the most complex part of speech in Tova having separate conjugations for person (1st, 2nd, 3rd), number (singular, plural), gender (inanimate, animate), mood (indicative, subjunctive, imperative), aspect (non-aspectual, habitual), tense (non-past, past), and voice (active, passive). The imperative also distinguishes a regular politeness and a suggestive politeness, the latter is used for suggestions or simply as a polite imperative.
+Tova has an unusually high amount of noun cases, possessing 9 different cases; nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, comitative, inessive, adessive, ablative, and locative. Pronouns have more cases and genders than general nouns. Adjectives will agree with the nouns that they modify. Adverbs are not distinct in their forms from adjectives.
+Tova's most unusual feature is a nonconcatenative root system, many different parts of speech are formed from these roots. For example, the root ''k-s-t'' relates to ''going'' or ''travelling''. The first form of this root forms a verb ''kasata'' 'to go, travel'. Depending on how one counts, there are 5, 6, or 9 different forms per root. These roots are also used to derive nouns, adjectives, and participles. E.g. ''k-s-t'' 'going, travelling' → ''kastan'' 'traveller, one who goes'.
+=== Pronouns ===
+Pronouns have thirteen cases and three genders.
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+
+! rowspan="3" |
+! colspan="5" |Singular
+! colspan="3" |Plural
+|-
+! rowspan="2" |1st
+! rowspan="2" |2nd
+! colspan="3" |3rd
+! rowspan="2" |1st
+! rowspan="2" |2nd
+! rowspan="2" |3rd
+|-
+!Human
+!Non-Human
+!Inanimate
+|-
+!Nominative
+|ja
+|elek
+| rowspan="2" |en
+|id
+|őv
+|uvas
+|as
+| rowspan="2" |an
+|-
+!Accusative
+|jen
+|elen
+|in
+|őn
+|uvan
+|asan
+|-
+!Dative
+|ji
+|eli
+|eni
+|idi
+|ővi
+|uvasi
+|asi
+|ani
+|-
+!Genitive
+|jana
+|ek
+|et
+|ni
+|vi
+|vas
+|sa
+|na
+|-
+!Comitative
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+|-
+!Inessive
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+|-
+!Elative
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+|-
+!Illative
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+|-
+!Adessive
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+|-
+!Ablative
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+|-
+!Essive
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+|-
+!Abessive
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+|-
+!Vocative
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+|}
+nitive forms of the pronouns.
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Table of pronominal affixes
+! rowspan="3" |
+! colspan="5" |Singular
+! colspan="3" |Plural
+|-
+! rowspan="2" |1st
+! rowspan="2" |2nd
+! colspan="3" |3rd
+! rowspan="2" |1st
+! rowspan="2" |2nd
+! rowspan="2" |3rd
+|-
+!Human
+!Non-Human
+!Inanimate
+|-
+!Accusative
+| -Vje
+| -Vl
+| -Vn
+| -Vdi
+| -Vvi
+| -Vvu
+| -Cas
+| -Vda
+|-
+!Genitive
+| -Ca
+| -Vk
+| -Vt
+| -Cin
+| -Ci
+| -Vs
+| -Vsa
+| -Vn
+|}
+The ''C'' and ''V'' mean 'consonant' and 'vowel' respectively, when these affixes are applied, the closest C or V to the suffix will be taken from the attached word and appended to the affix to prevent any illegal clusters or vowel hiatus. For example, ''imujsun'' 'book' → ''imujs'''u'''n'''u'''k'' 'your book'. The final vowel in ''imujsun'' is /u/, and that becomes the ''V'' in the ''-Vk'' affix.
+The accusative affixes are appended onto the ends of verbs, so Tova can be described as being polypersonal, as verbs are inflected for subjects and direct objects. The genitives are essentially possessives.

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