Miyako/Grammar
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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:
Romaji | Hiragana | Usage | tag |
---|---|---|---|
a | あ | topic 1 | <top1> |
ga | が | genitive and nominative | <gen> and <nom> |
nu | ぬ | genitive and nominative | <gen> and <nom> |
u | う | accusative 1 | <acc1> |
a | あ | accusative 2 | <acc2> |
du | どぅ | focus | <foc> |
n | ん | 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:
Romaji | HIragana | Meaning |
---|---|---|
doo | ||
i |
Ikema does not have productive reduplication, unlike other Miyako dialects
use the cases for the postpositions and mod for sentence final particles