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Mogazian Cases
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As a daughter language of Colian, Mogazian is a stand-out among its sisters for having a case system. Colian did as well, but its case system is not the ancestor of Mogazian's. By the time of the breakup of the Colian language into dialects, the case system had been almost entirely leveled out and destroyed due to vowel shifts. By the time the daughter languages began to emerge as languages as opposed to dialects, the case system had been eliminated entirely.
Mogazian's close proximity to (and eventual political takeover by) Hungarian saw a rebirth of the case system, this time caused by quasi-calquing of Hungarian grammar. Prepositions in proto-Mogazian turned into postpositions, and eventually attached themselves to the base noun. As vowel harmony developed (again by Hungarian influence), the postpositions became affixes, inseparable from the noun. This led to Mogazian being the only living Colian language with a case system.
Due to Mogazian's vowel harmony, most case endings have two forms, one for front vowel nouns, and one for back vowel nouns.
The dative, much like in every language that has it, is used to designate the indirect object of a verb. The dative is also controlled by a few postpositions (those that haven't converted into new cases).
It historically derives from Colian in, and is -u for back vowel nouns, and -i for front vowel nouns.
The instrumental denotes that the noun is used to do something, usually corresponding with English 'with' or 'using'. It derives from Colian só, with the same meaning.
It is -su on back vowels and -sü on front.
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