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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">From your description, these things
look more like adverbs. Adverbs may combine a semantic component
corresponding to a region with a semantic component corresponding
to a local relation, like <i>down-wards</i> or <i>west-wards</i>.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 24.03.21 um 16:54 schrieb Jess
Tauber:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Yahgan (genetic isolate, Tierra del Fuego, now
critically endangered (1 elderly speaker remaining) had a system
of spatial/locational terms that I hadn't thought of as
case-like until reading the earlier posts here. i:la 'position
outside/southward', i:lu: 'direction outside/southward'; inna
'position up/westward'., i:nu: 'direction up/westward'; i:ta
'position eastward/down', i:tu: 'direction east/down', and so
on. These roots can then be extensively derived and also
incorporate nominal elements following the. root. But normal
object case forms are suffixed to the referent, including simple
locative -n, ablative -(n)daul(um) and allative -u:pai. So was
this larger geographically-based system a case system in
development at the time of European contact, or something else?
A separate system using non-cognate morphemes was prefixed to
verbs to indicate direction.
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