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Old Mattinese was the earliest attested form of Mattinese, it featured the use of a Cyrillic alphabet
Nouns in Old Mattinese mostly end in -a, -i or a consonant, some nouns also end in -ii. The same applies to adjectives
Nouns of Old Mattinese declined according to case and number, there are two numbers: Singular and Plural, and there are three cases: Direct, Genitive and Dative-Locative.
The Direct case, also the Nominative-Accusative case, is used for the subject and the direct object of a verb.
The Genitive case is used to indicate the possessor of a noun, most postpositions also require the noun to be in the Genitive case.
The Dative-Locative case is only used in certain fixed expressions involving the indirect object and the location or time.
The use of case was already diminishing in Old Mattinese and the Dative-Locative case was only seen in fixed expressions. Adjectives in Old Mattinese agree with the head noun in number and case.
The verbal conjugation of Old Mattinese is largely similar to that of modern Mattinese.
Old Mattinese has a fixed SVO word order when the object is a noun or demonstrative pronoun, and SOV when the object is a personal pronoun; however, unlike modern Mattinese, adpositions are postpositions in Old Mattinese, the shift from postpositions to prepositions occurred during the middle ages after the first attestions of Mattinese.
Old Mattinese does not have a direct object adposition, making the subject and direct object only distinguishable by word order. The development of direct object adposition happened roughly the same time when Mattinese adpositions shifted from postpositions to prepositions.
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