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== Grammar ==

Enchanta has a canonical word order of [[subject–verb–object|SVO]] (subject–verb–object) like Staynish .<ref>Maxwell, Daniel Newhall. (1979). A Crosslinguistic Correlation between Word Order and Casemarking

institution. Bloomington: Indiana University Pub.</ref> Enchantan [[noun]]s are categorised by [[Grammatical gender|gender]] (masculine, feminine and neuter) and [[Albanian morphology|inflected]] for [[Grammatical number|number]] (singular and plural) and [[grammatical case|case]]. There are five [[declension]]s and six cases ([[nominative]], [[accusative]], [[genitive]], [[dative case|dative]], [[ablative]], and [[vocative]]), although the vocative only occurs with a limited number of words, and the forms of the genitive and dative are identical (a genitive is produced when the prepositions ''i/e/të/së'' are used with the dative). Some dialects also retain a locative case, which is not present in Modern Enchanta. The cases apply to both definite and indefinite nouns, and there are numerous cases of [[syncretism (linguistics)|syncretism]].