Moving onto the grammar. We'll take the nouns first. They've lost some cases from PIE (they are now reduced to a nominative, accusative, locative, and "oblique" derived from the genitive in the singular and dual and the dative/ablative in the plural), but have kept the dual and all three genders.
Here's the declension of the a-stem feminines. There are two subdeclensions of a-stems, those that were formerly accented on their stem (example
ekā, ekās "mare"), and those that were formerly accented on their ending (
apso, apsos "wasp"). We'll take the stem-accents first:
| Singular | Dual | Plural |
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Nominative | ekā | eka | ekās |
Accusative | ekān | eka | ekās |
Locative | eke | ekāwos | ekāsu |
Oblique | ekās | ekāwos | ekābas |
Fairly straightforward; note that the nominative and accusative are differentiated only in the singular, and that the locative and oblique merge in the dual (true for all genders). Here is an ending-accent:
| Singular | Dual | Plural |
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Nominative | apso | apse | apsos |
Accusative | apson | apse | apsos |
Locative | apsā | asowos | apsosu |
Oblique | apsos | asowos | apsobas |
Moving on to the o-stems. There are also two subdeclensions of o-stems, those which were formerly accented on their stem (example
etas, etaša, "path"), and those which were formerly accented on their endings (example
nisrās, nisrāša, "nest"). Here's
etas:
| Singular | Dual | Plural |
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Nominative | etas | etā | etās |
Accusative | etan | etā | etās |
Locative | eti | etayos | etasu |
Oblique | etaša | etayos | etabas |
Here's
nisrās.
| Singular | Dual | Plural |
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Nominative | nisrās | nisro | nisres |
Accusative | nisrān | nisro | nisros |
Locative | nisri | nisrāwos | nisresu |
Oblique | nisrāša | nisrāwos | nisrābas |
Note some differences in the endings, mainly changed vowels.
The o-stem neuters, to nobody's surprise, only differ from the masculines in their nominative and accusative. Here's a stem-accent,
grewan, grewaša "reed, rush". Only the nom/acc needs to be presented.
| Singular | Dual | Plural |
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Nominative/Accusative | grewan | grewa | grewā |
And here's an ending-accent,
karān, karāša "greed".
| Singular | Dual | Plural |
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Nominative/Accusative | karān | kare | karo |
A subclass of o-stems, both masculine and neuter, have -u- in many forms. Here is an example (stem-accents and ending-accents are not differentiated in this class),
ekus, ekuša, "horse":
| Singular | Dual | Plural |
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Nominative | ekus | ekā | ekas |
Accusative | ekun | ekā | ekās |
Locative | eki | ekuwās | ekubas |
Oblique | ekuša | ekuwās | ekesu |
And here is a neuter,
dārkun, darkuša "evening meal":
| Singular | Dual | Plural |
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Nominative/Accusative | dārkun | dārka | dārkā |
I'll try and get some more nouns up soon, as well as pronouns.