Grammar
Proto-Samoyed was a fairly typical agglutinative language with only little morphophonological alteration.
Three numbers were distinguished: singular, dual and plural. Possession was indicated with possessive suffixes.
Nouns distinguished seven cases:
- Nominative: (no ending)
- Genitive: *-n
- Accusative: *-m
- Locative: *-kə-nå / *-kə-nä
- Ablative: *-kə-t(ə)
- Dative: *-kə-
- Prosecutive: *-mə-nå / *-mə-nä
Verbs were conjugated for mood, tense, number and person. There were also separate subjective and objective conjugations.
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