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3: Nouns

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Late Dulukian (c.~1405 BCE onwards) has some unique features when it comes to nouns.

Part 1: What it Lacks

Dulukian lacks some major features in other real and constructed languages, even its inspirations (Hittite and Akkadian) have these features:

  1. Number Neutrality: not uncommon in real languages, however it does occur in Dulukian, numerals and context carry plurality instead of a specific change.

  2. No grammatical gender or case: yes! No case is very rare, but Dulukian lost it's very small case system around Early Dulukian (c.1910 BCE) and since then every noun is used in it's "bare" form.

Part 2: Derivational Suffixes; Pronouns & Possessives

Dulukian does not have a case system, but it does have a derivational suffix system, which mark the way a word can be modified.
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Dulukian also has a fully fleshed out pronoun and possessives system:

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Notably, regarding the Pronoun Declension table - Dulukian makes a distinction between gendered possession (with Mo and Ma) and non-gendered subject (Mi). Read more about the social reason for the difference in Sociolinguistics & Register.