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Revision as of 03:32, 8 February 2017

Parts of Speech

Ikema has nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and interjections. Also postpositions and final particles.

Grammar Points

common strategies are affixation and compounding

List of postpositions [1]

Romaji Hiragana Usage tag
a topic 1 <top1>
ga genitive and nominative <gen> and <nom>
nu genitive and nominative <gen> and <nom>
u accusative 1 <acc1>
a accusative 2 <acc2>
du どぅ focus <foc>
n 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
na Y/N question
ga Wh question
da how about ~?

Noun suffixes [1]

Romaji HIragana Meaning
gamma がっま Diminutive
mmi  っみ Plural 1
ta  た Plural 2
nagi  なぎ Approximative

Ikema does not have productive reduplication, unlike other Miyako dialects

use the cases for the postpositions and mod for sentence final particles
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://lingdy.aacore.jp/jp/material/An_introduction_to_Ryukyuan_languages.pdf