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	Proto-Suunitic	English
#6	Proto-Suunitic by Knut
	sildh dwīxn zla sarnkhi prirū ansi naw ājudun. prirā tsixā cuīpā ansi tusth? sildh mirn zla cunkhi. naw ājudun tus urkh, urkh tus naw wiñaw: tuñ.	you are strong if you hurt people with your spear. Do all people think about it regularly? You succeed if you think. Your spear is time, you know time: killing.

LEXICON

ansi	prep. using; by means of
ājudun	n. spear
cu-	v. think
dwī-	adj. strong
mir-	adj. good, beneficial; morally good
prir	n. person
sar-	v. hurt, damage
ts-	adj. all
tuñ	n. killing
urkh	n. time
wiñ	n. thought

GRAMMAR

NOUNS

Nouns in Proto-Suunitic inflect for number and case. There are several paradigms based on an animacy noun class system, but this is irrelevant in this text. The relevant affixes are listed below:

PRONOUNS

-ū	Patientive plural
-ā	Agentive plural
-aw	Dative singular

Both nouns and pronouns exhibit Fluid-S alignment, with the patientive form being the less marked one; agentive subjects imply a higher degree of volition and control of the action.

PSnc is not pro-drop.

The relevant pronouns are listed below:

zla	Agentive 2nd person singular
sildh	Patientive 2nd person singular
naw	Genitive 2nd person singular
tus	Agentive 3rd person singular
tusth	Patientive 3rd person singular

VERBS

Verbs in PSnc primarily inflect for tense (not present), aspect/evidentiality, and person.

Adjectives, both attributive and predicative, function as verbs using the stative aspect.

The relevant affixes are listed below:

-n	1st & 2nd person singular
-a	3rd person singular
-ā	3rd person plural
-khi	uncertain conditional clitic
-ix-	stative (adjectival) aspect
-ip-	habitual/gnomic aspect