Wikifunctions:Human languages/Z1314

Basque (Z1314): Description missing

• Basque language declension system in rather regular based on suffixes.
  • Here a few examples for Basque declension:
    • Basque plural noun (Z18541): This function creates the plural for a noun in Basque
    • Basque ergative singular case declension (Z18670): This function returns the singular ergative case for a noun (proper or not) in Basque language
  • Before implementing all of them, we may propose an overall classification that eases both the implementation and the future usage of the functions. Here a first try based on bibliography from the Basque Language Academy:
    • Personal pronouns: they can be treated as exceptions (e.g. "zuek -> zuei", etc.) together with proper noun declension, or as a separate case.
    • Determiners: they can be treated as exceptions (e.g. "hau" -> "honek", etc) together with common noun declension, or as a separated case
    • Grammatical cases:
      • Absolutive ("Nor"): indefinite, singular and plural
      • Ergative ("Nork"): indefinite, singular and plural
      • Dative ("Nori"): indefinite, singular and plural
    • Place and Time: we must distinguish animate (AN) and inanimate (IN)
      • Inessive IN ("Non"): indefinite, singular and plural
      • Inessive AN ("Norengan"): indefinite, singular and plural - It could be a composition of "Noren" + "-gan"
      • Place and time ("Nongo"): indefinite, singular and plural
      • Allative IN ("Nora"): indefinite, singular and plural
      • Allative AN ("Norengana"): indefinite, singular and plural - It could be a composition of "Noren/Norengan" + "-gan/-a"
      • Finished Allative AN ("Noraino"): indefinite, singular and plural - It could be a composition of "Nora" + "-ino"
      • Finished Allative AN ("Norengainaino"): indefinite, singular and plural - It could be a composition of "Noregana" + "-ino"
      • Right way Allative IN ("Noratz"): indefinite, singular and plural - It could be a composition of "Nora" + "-ntz"
      • Right way Allative AN ("Norenganantz"): indefinite, singular and plural - It could be a composition of "Norengana" + "-ntz"
      • Ablative IN ("Nondik"): indefinite, singular and plural
      • Ablative AN ("Norengandik"): indefinite, singular and plural
    • Rest of the cases:
      • Partitive ("Zerik"): indefinite
      • Possessive ("Noren"): indefinite, singular and plural
      • Sociative ("Norekin"): indefinite, singular and plural
      • Instrumental ("Zerez"): indefinite, singular and plural
      • Motivative ("Zerengatik"): indefinite, singular and plural
      • Destinative ("Norentzat"): indefinite, singular and plural - It could be a composition of "Noren" + "-tzat"
    • Special case:
      • Prolative ("Nortzat"): indefinite
    • To take into consideration:
      • Together with animate and inanimate classification, we should also consider if the noun is a proper noun ("izen berezia"). We can identify that automatically (e.g. check if written in Title case, but this may not be always possible like in the beginning of sentences), but a dedicated function may be preferred (or a boolean to the generic function saying it is a proper noun).
      • The main distinction is between noun ending by vowel or consonant that can be easily computed