Azkali grammar

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Azkali grammar is the structural rules which the Azkali language follows, including the rules for words, phrases, clauses, and sentences.

Nouns

Azkali nouns are overtly declined for six grammatical cases (the ergative, absolutive, possessive, privative, dative, and instrumental) and three numbers (the singular, paucal, and plural), with any type of grammatical gender being completely absent in all attested dialects. Azkali nouns are constructed agglunatively, contrasting extremely with verbs.

Case

Grammatical case, or the direct inflection of nouns based on their grammatical roles or functions, is used prevalently in Azkali. In Azkali, there are six canonical grammatical cases;