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#** {{morphTest|lyp{{tag|n}}|lyp}} - seed
 
#** {{morphTest|lyp{{tag|n}}|lyp}} - seed
 
#* Verb
 
#* Verb
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#** {{morphTest|lyp{{tag|n}}|lyp}} - sow
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#** {{morphTest|lyp{{tag|v}}|lyp}} - sow
 
#* Adjective
 
#* Adjective
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#** {{morphTest|jjip{{tag|n}}|jjip}} - full
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#** {{morphTest|jjip{{tag|adj}}|jjip}} - full
 
# Semi-closed  
 
# Semi-closed  
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#* Determiner, adverb, conjunction
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#* Determiner
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#** Classifier
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#*** {{morphTest|ji{{tag|Cl}}|ji}} - bar,used to classify one-dimensional entities
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#* Adverb
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#** {{morphTest|gexyimu{{tag|adv}}|gexyimu}} - stupid
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#* Conjunction
 
# Closed
 
# Closed
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#* Pronoun, particle, auxiliary, complementizer
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#* Pronoun  
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#* Particle
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#* Auxiliary
  
 
== Morphological Analysis ==
 
== Morphological Analysis ==

Revision as of 19:30, 10 February 2022


Part of Speech

  1. Open
    • Noun
      • lyp<n> ↔ lyp - seed
    • Verb
      • lyp<v> ↔ lyp - sow
    • Adjective
      • jjip<adj> ↔ jjip - full
  2. Semi-closed
    • Determiner
      • Classifier
        • ji<Cl> ↔ ji - bar,used to classify one-dimensional entities
    • Adverb
      • gexyimu<adv> ↔ gexyimu - stupid
    • Conjunction
  3. Closed
    • Pronoun
    • Particle
    • Auxiliary

Morphological Analysis

1. Size prefixes

  • The diminutive prefixes i and the augmentative prefix a can be prefixed to a set of adjectival roots generating pairs of antonyms.
    • sho<n><pl> ↔ ix sho** -iet (big)
    • -a (small)
    • ax (small)

2. mu- prefix 'place, sky, stream'

3. Nominalizer suffixes

  • -lu (action)
  • -jjux (quality or extent)
  • -tie (manner)

4. Adjectivizer suffixes

  • -sa
  • -we

5. Reduplicaiton

  • Nouns
  • Cl
  • Pronouns
  • Verbs/Adjectives reduplicate to form alternative question

6.Color Ideophones

7. Gender/Age suffixes

  • Three gender and one age suffixes attached to animal names: - bat (male), -bu (male), -mop (female) and -sse (young).