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Revision as of 02:14, 9 February 2017
Parts of Speech
Ikema has nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and interjections. Also postpositions and final particles.
Grammar Points
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]
| Romaji | HIragana | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| doo | ||
| i | い | |
| na | な | Y/N question |
| ga | が | Wh question |
| da | だ | how about ~? |
Noun suffixes
| Romaji | HIragana | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| gamma | がっま | Diminutive |
| mmi | っみ | Plural 1 |
| ta | た | Plural 2 |
| nagi | なぎ | Approximative |
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