Sarkezhe Grammar

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Sarkezhe is a synthetic language.

Nouns

Nouns in Sarkezhe decline for case. The cases are standard (i.e. nominative), genitive, allative, ablative, and illative.

Noun class

Nouns are categorized into nine noun classes (or categories):

Class Description
I Cats
II Diminutive animate
III Augmentative animate
IV Soft
V Hard
VI Liquid
VII Container
VIII Tool
IX Abstract

Noun declension

Noun declension differs depending on if the noun root has front or back vowels, according to the vowel harmony rules of Sarkezhe.

Pronouns

Personal pronouns, like nouns, decline for case. There are first-person and second-person singular, as well as plural, pronouns. Each noun class has its own third-person pronoun.