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Ikema has nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and interjections. Also postpositions and final particles.

List of postpositions ^[1]

Romaji	Hiragana	Usage	tag
a	あ	topic 1	`<top1>`
ga	が	genitive and nominative	`<gen>` and `<nom>`
nu	ぬ	genitive and nominative	`<gen>` and `<nom>`
u	う	accusative 1	`<acc1>`
a	あ	accusative 2	`<acc2>`
du	どぅ	focus	`<foc>`
n	ん	dative	`<dat>`
ti	てぃ	quotative	`<quot>`
nkai	んかい	allative 1	`<all1>`
nki	んき	allative 2	`<all2>`
taahii	たーひー	limitative	`<lim>`
kara	から	ablative	`<abl>`
hii	ひー	instrumental	`<ins>`
tu	とぅ	comitative	`<com>`
ncɨkyaa	んつきゃー	comparative	`<comp>`

List of final particles ^[1]

Noun suffixes ^[1]

Noun compounding Two nouns can be compounded together. An adjectival stem can be compounded with a noun.

Ikema does not have productive reduplication, unlike other Miyako dialects

use the cases for the postpositions and mod for sentence final particles

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 ==Grammar Points==
-common strategies are affixation and compounding
 List of postpositions <ref name="intro"> http://lingdy.aacore.jp/jp/material/An_introduction_to_Ryukyuan_languages.pdf </ref>
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+Noun compounding
+Two nouns can be compounded together.
+An adjectival stem can be compounded with a noun.
 Ikema does not have productive reduplication, unlike other Miyako dialects