Okinawan and Miyako/Contrastive Grammar
From LING073
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>