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

common strategies are affixation and compounding

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 ^[2]

Noun suffixes ^[2]

Ikema does not have productive reduplication, unlike other Miyako dialects

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

↑ http://lingdy.aacore.jp/jp/material/An_introduction_to_Ryukyuan_languages.pdf
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+|na || な || Y/N question
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+|ga || が || Wh question
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+|da || だ || how about ~?
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+!Romaji || HIragana || Meaning
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+|gamma || がっま ||Diminutive
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+|mmi ||　っみ || Plural 1
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+|ta ||　た || Plural 2
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+|nagi ||　なぎ ||Approximative
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