Proto-North-Socoan language

Proto-North-Socoan (PNS) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the North-Socoan language family.

Grammar
Proto-North-Socoan is a synthetic language with a moderate degree of agglutination.

Nouns
Nouns in Proto-North-Socoan inflect for six cases and two numbers.

Number
The plural in Proto-North-Socoan is formed using word reduplication; the collective is formed using the suffix *-iqum.


 * *wucari — mouse
 * *wucariwucari — mouses
 * *wucariiqum — all mouses

Verbs
Verbs in Proto-North-Socoan are only conjugated for tense.

Syntax
Proto-North-Socoan is an object–verb–subject language. Adjectives follow nouns; adverbs follow verbs.

Numbers

 * 1) *jaqete
 * 2) *nemi
 * 3) *qu
 * 4) *ptaselim
 * 5) *mecaj
 * 6) *qiu
 * 7) *taru
 * 8) *meum
 * 9) *miqu
 * 10) *unsej