| abstract | - {| bgcolor="#D4F7FF" style="border:3px #B5F1FF solid; text-align: center; float:right; " width="20%" height="80%" ; | Name: [[]] Type: Inflecting Alignment: Nominative-Accusative Head Direction: Mixed Number of genders: 2 Declensions: Yes Conjugations: Yes |} Akhaz is an inflecting language based on trilitteral roots, as in Semitic languages. There are 5 grammatical cases used in Akhaz: nominative, genitive, accusative, intrumental and vocative; 5 grammatical moods: indicative, imperative, conditional, energetic and gerundive; 4 tenses: future, present, preterite and past progressive; 2 voices: active and passive; 2 genders: masculine and feminine; 2 numbers: singular and plural (although archaic dual number is sometimes used). Sentence structure in Akhaz is extreme VSO - main verb always preceeds everything in a sentence, even interrogative particles. It's a pro-drop language.
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