Vōv Grammar
Vōv is an agglutinative language. The language is mostly head-initial. Adjectives and determiners follow the nouns they modify.
Nouns
Nouns decline for case and number. The cases include nominative (unmarked), accusative (marked with s-, from a root meaning "touch"), dative (n-/m-, "give"), and genitive (gi-, "come"). Plural number can be marked by reduplication, for example nah "way" ́~ nanah "ways".
Possession in nouns is marked by possessive suffixes:
First Person | Second Person | Third Person | |
---|---|---|---|
Singular | -um | -vā | |
Plural | -loi |
Pronouns
Pronouns decline for case and number. The personal pronouns of Vōv are shown in the following table:
Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st Person | 2nd Person | 3rd Person | 1st Person | 2nd Person | 3rd Person | |
Nominative | hum | vā | lō | |||
Accusative | svā | slō | ||||
Dative | nhum | mvā | ||||
Genitive |
The interrogative pronoun sik can be mean both "what" and "who."
Determiners
Vōv has demonstratives, for example the proximal demonstrative mem "this."
Verbs
Verbs in Vōv agree with their subjects in person and number. This is marked by suffixes:
First Person | Second Person | Third Person | |
---|---|---|---|
Singular | -um | ||
Plural | -loi |