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== The four types of languages: ==

*Isolating (''sapyvlakai'')
*Inflecting (''vlatikykai'')

*Agglutinative (''niprafkai'')
*Polysynthetic (''clajvokai'')

la lojban. mo bangu .i xu sapivlakai go'i ''.i sapyvlakai joi clajvokai''

What sort of language is Lojban ? (isolating?) ''part isolating, part polysynthetic'' Don't rafsi make it more agglutinative than polysynthetic?

==== Cases ====

*Case (''tersu'i'')
**Nominative (''gasnu'')

**Accusative (''selri'a'')
***Doesn't this mean "that which is brought into being" (effected) rather than "that which is acted upon" (affected)? --mi'e [[braiyn|braiyn]]

**Genitive (''ponse'')
**Dative (''terdu'a'')

**Instrumental (''selpli'')
**(another use for instrumental in IE) (''selkansa'')

**Locative (''selzva'')
**Prepositional (=locative in Slavic) (''seltcita'')

**Ablative (''tervi'u'')
**Vocative (''selta'a'')

**Ergative (''zukte'')