Difference between revisions of "Okinawan and Miyako/Contrastive Grammar"
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*Medial verbs appear frequently in Okinawan (indicating simultaneous or sequential verbs), but do not seem to appear in Ikema Miyako (though they do in Irabu). | *Medial verbs appear frequently in Okinawan (indicating simultaneous or sequential verbs), but do not seem to appear in Ikema Miyako (though they do in Irabu). | ||
*It seems that pronouns (in particular, second person singular) are dropped more often in Miyako than in Okinawan. | *It seems that pronouns (in particular, second person singular) are dropped more often in Miyako than in Okinawan. | ||
| + | *When discussing when things happen (e.g. I went when I was 10), Miyako has a couple of examples that have a word meaning time, but Okinawan does not seem to have anything equivalent. | ||
==ryu-mvi tests== | ==ryu-mvi tests== | ||
Revision as of 22:42, 20 March 2017
Differences between Okinawan and Miyako
- There are three locatives in Okinawan and one in Miyako.
- There are two allatives in Ikema and one in Okinawan.
- There is an accusative in Miyako but not in Okinawan.
- There is an associative in Okinawan but not in Miyako.
- Medial verbs appear frequently in Okinawan (indicating simultaneous or sequential verbs), but do not seem to appear in Ikema Miyako (though they do in Irabu).
- It seems that pronouns (in particular, second person singular) are dropped more often in Miyako than in Okinawan.
- When discussing when things happen (e.g. I went when I was 10), Miyako has a couple of examples that have a word meaning time, but Okinawan does not seem to have anything equivalent.
