Miyako/Grammar
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Parts of Speech
Ikema has nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and interjections. Also postpositions and final particles.
Alternations
common strategies are affixation and compounding
List of postpositions:
| Romaji | Hiragana | Usage |
|---|---|---|
| a | あ | topic1 |
| ga | が | genitive and nominative |
| nu | ぬ | genitive and nominative |
| u | う | accusative |
| du | どぅ | focus |
| n | ん | dative |
| ti | てぃ | quotative |
| nkai | んかい | allative 1 |
| nki | んき | allative 2 |
| taahii | たーひー | limitative |
| kara | から | ablative |
| hii | ひー | instrumental |
| tu | とぅ | commitative |
| ncɨkyaa | んつきゃー | comparative |
Ikema does not have productive reduplication, unlike other Miyako dialects
use the cases for the postpositions and mod for sentence final particles
