Azkali grammar
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.
Pronouns
Personal and reflexive pronouns
The following table shows each personal pronoun in Azkali, declining for case and number. In addition, there is also reflexive pronouns included; while not a case in itself, in most Azkali grammars, the reflexive pronouns are included with the personal ones.
| Singular | Paucal | Plural | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |||
| Masculine | Feminine | Neutral | |||||||||
| Ergative | go | tu | mai | kut | hakel | tzo | tzu | tzare | ko | ku | kei |
| Absolutive | en | kurez | tzen | rutzez | komo | kumu | keime | ||||
| Possessive | tuek | maik | kutek | harek | tzuk | tzak | zku | ezkei | |||
| Privative | goz | tukoz | maiz | keiz | heiz | tzeiz | tzuiz | tzaiz | tzaoz | tzauz | eztzeu |
| Dative | get | tet | het | tzego | tzeutu | tzere | geo | teo | keo | ||
| Instrumental | gokoz | tukoz | hekoz | ||||||||
| (Reflexive) | go ten | tu ten | ha te | tzo te | tzu te | tzare te | ko te | ku te | kei te | ||
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;