While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- Cree is a synthetic language in the Algonquian language family.
- In synthetic languages, nouns can take several different forms (or cases) depending on their function within a sentence.
- Combining the suffix -ihk with the Cree noun sâkahikan (lake) forms the locative-case noun sâkahikanihk (in the lake).
- Synthetic languages have extensive case systems.
- In analytic languages, cases are not typically used to indicate noun function.
- Noun function is instead indicated through word order and auxiliary words (such as prepositions and adjectives).