User:The Kaufman/Grammar

So the grammar of Čųaxtu (that's the language of Ičhąwe) is mainly prefixing and totally agglutinative, with a lot of classifiers and whatnot.

I'll write the basic grammar here.

Pronominal prefixes
If the subject is not pronominal and is mentioned, only singular forms are used.

Pluralization
Nouns are pluralized by lengthening the last vowel and adding the -š suffix, e.g. ąxu > ąxuuš.

Certain nouns take the ši- prefix, e.g. xoje > šixoje.

Adjectives
Adjectives follow the nouns they modify and have the affix -tłi- placed right before the root to form a comparative and after it to form a superlative, e.g. tłi-šoč, šoč-tłi "bigger, the biggest"

Verbs
Verbs use the same pronominal infixes, with several infixes to mark tense, mood, etc, etc.

Verb infixes
Verbal locatives (such as u-. xǫ-, etc.) will be listed as separate entries in the lexicon.

Reduplication is productive to amplify the meaning of a root or make a verb iterative.

Negative is expressed by lengthening the last vowel of the root and adding a -ł suffix.

TBC.

There ends the true Čųaxtu grammar.

Random infixes
Thousands of them.

Possessive
The possessive infix is -j- after a pronominal prefix and ij- in 3rd person singular, e.g. šį-j-kųų, ij-kųų "your water, its water". If the following morpheme begins in -j-, the infix is -š-, e.g. ši-š-jųųb, iš-jųųb "your stone, its stone"