Hierarchy of Cases
Cases can be ranked in the following hierarchy, where a language that does not have a given case will tend to not have any cases to the right of the missing case:
- Nominative > accusative or ergative > genitive > dative > locative > ablative > instrumental > prepositional > others.
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