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This appendix is incomplete.
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Declension of Greenlandic nouns are notoriously complex due to many morphophonological processes. These processes can be explained by Proto-Eskimoic archiphonemes, according to An Introduction to West Greenlandic (version 2.3) by Stian Lubeck from 2022.
However, for simplicity, Finnish-like nominal types would be used here.
The following are the standard case endings, accounting to syncretism:
In many cases, singular and plurals are indistinguishable (or syncretized). The equative case only distinguishes number in the 3rd person possessives.
Singular
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Plural
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Notes
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Absolutive
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Ergative
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Instrumental
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3sg
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Absolutive
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Instrumental
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3pl
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sila
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silap
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silamik
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silaa
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silat
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silanik
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silaat
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Ending in -a or *-ə → -i.
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illu
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illup
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illumik
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illua
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illut
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illunik
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illui
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Ending in -i or -u.
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angut
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angutip
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angummik, angutimik
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angutaa
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angutit
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angutinik
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angutaat
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Ending in -t.
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aallaat
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aallaasip
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aallaammik
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aallaasaa
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aallaasit
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aallaasinik
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aallaasaat
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Same as type angut, but with assibilation.
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