Wokuthízhű Grammar

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Wokuthízhű is a highly synthetic language. It is mainly head-final. It features polypersonal agreement.

Nouns

Nouns decline for number and case. The numbers are singular, dual, and plural. There is an animate plural and an inanimate plural form. The cases are natural, unnatural, ablative, superessive, locative, and aversive.

Adjectives

Wokuthízhű has a closed class of prefixal classifiers which fill the role of adjectives. The classifiers are categorized into several classes depending on how they interact with a following segment. When used predicatively, these classifiers are turned into stative verbs.

Verbs

Verbs agree with both their subject and direct object.