Okinawan and Miyako/Contrastive Grammar
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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.
