Uralic languages An example of a comparative case which designates similarity to something is found in
Mari, where the comparative case is the suffix () as in (1): Mari also uses the comparative case when denoting the language a person is speaking, writing, or hearing. Then, however, the accentuation varies slightly from the standard case. Usually, the suffix is not stressed. When it is used to denote a language, however, it is stressed. In another
Uralic language,
Erzya-Mordvin, the comparative case suffix is . The case is generally used to indicate similarity in size or quantity.
Caucasian languages An example of the comparative case marking the noun serving as the standard of comparison comes from the
Chechen suffix . For example, the comparative suffix appears on 'ice' in 'cold as ice': The comparative case can also be found in
Archi, a
Northeast Caucasian language:
Turkic languages Similarly, in the
Turkic language
Sakha (Yakut), the noun serving as the standard of comparison can be marked with the comparative case suffix
-TĀGAr . This latter sense of
comparative case is similar to locational comparatives, where a locational case such as the
ablative marks the noun in a standard of comparison, found in Turkic languages such as
Uzbek:
Language isolates Nivkh is another language with this comparative case suffix (
-yk/-ak): == See also ==