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| | Tundra Nenets grammatical sketch |
 | | The basic stem types are (i) the vowel stems, (ii) the glide stems, (iii) the alteration stems, and (iv) the consonant stems, the major divisions being the vowel and the consonant stems. |
 | | The number of glide stems is very small, and they differ from vowel stems only through the appearance of a glide when a suffix with an initial vowel is attached. |
 | | Of the seven cases, the grammatical cases, nominative, accusative, and genitive, combine with all three numbers, while the local cases, dative, locative, ablative, and prosecutive, appear only in singular and plural, the missing local dual forms being replaced by expressions with the corresponding case forms of the postposition nya- ‘at’. |
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