Okoki Grammar

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Okoki is a lightly agglutinative subject-object-verb language.

Nouns

Okoki's nouns are marked for number and case, the plural number is marked by the prefix o(s)- and the accusative case by the suffix -na. The accusative is used to mark direct objects as well as objects of postpositions.

Okoki lacks articles, nouns are not marked for definiteness.

Verbs

Okoki's verbs inflect for tense and agree with their subjects in number. The non-past tense is marked by the suffix -a and the past tense by -do, the tense markers are followed by the number markers, -nu in the singular and -ra in the plural.

Some Okoki verbs have 2 stems, one is used before -a and the other elsewhere, for instance ilã has the stem ilam- before -a.

Syntax

Okoki's usual word order is subject-object-verb:

Ko_S ilamanu_V — "The squirrel_S scampers_V"

Aki_S fiina_O a'ipanu_V — "A fox_S chases_V a leaf_O"

It uses postpositions:

Lia_S arẽna_O ga_P dogidonu_V — "A deer_S hid_V in_P the bush_O"