Okinawan and Miyako/Contrastive Grammar

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.

ryu-mvi tests

• (ryu) go to the teachers → (mvi) ならーすびーっみんかい いでぃい

  (ryu) teacher<n><pl><all> go<v><npst> ん<mod> → (mvi) ならーすびーっみんかい<n><pl><all> いでぃい<v><npst>

• (ryu) saw a goat → (mvi) ひんじゃうどぅ みーたい

  (ryu) → (mvi) ひんじゃうどぅ <n><acc><foc> みーたい<v><pst>

• (ryu) Write! → (mvi) かきる

  (ryu) <pprn><p2><sg> write<v><imp> → (mvi) かきる<v><imp>

• (ryu) walking → (mvi) あいきー ゆー

  (ryu) walk<v><prog> → (mvi) あいきー <v><cvb_abs> ゆー<cont>

• (ryu) this is expensive → (mvi) うらあ たかだいむぬ

  (ryu) → (mvi) うらあ<pprn><p3><sg><top1> たかだいむぬ<adj><nz>