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Maytyarri is a minor language of [[Tricin]]. It's spoken in the ___ Mountains.
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Pronouns: na, ni, nu, nana, nini, nunu
Antyardu-n' ami tyu.ngarnra tyu.rraparn-ku kanyu-nra.
 
I-NOM about love hate-and speak-PRES
 
Warr' antyardu-rriku rimpawrda-nra?
 
for me-INTERR save-PRES?
 
Ngurtima yirr pardungu nu-rta-rimpawrda!
 
happy ACC·PREP birth GEN-AGENT-save! (Merry Christmas!)


==Todo==
==Todo==
''ikuu'' = 'self'
*indef article, no def article
 
*4 cases
==Phonology==
*no adj w/o noun
Based on Australian/Tamil.
*SV or VS order, neither dominant
===Consonants===
*4 genders
p t ʈ c k
*interrogative word order = object first
m n ɳ ɲ ŋ
j ʋ
r ɻ ɽ
mʙ ⁿr ᶯɽ
 
p t rt ty k
m n rn ny ng
y w
rr r rd
mb nr rnr
 
===Vowels===
aa a ii i uu u
 
===Phonotactics===
Words may only end in a vowel or one of the following consonants: ''n rn rr r y w''.
 
Geminate consonants are prohibited, like in Australian Aboriginal languages and unlike in Tamil.
 
==Grammar==
Latin-ish, "magnā cum laude" order
===Nouns===
''-ngku'' = plural
 
Need case clitics
 
===Pronouns===
''antyardu'' = I
 
''narrinyi'' = thou
 
''wurta'' = he/she
 
''kumparnri'' = we
 
''rtaarntu'' = ye
 
''wurtangku'' = they
 
===Verbs===


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Latest revision as of 16:01, 7 January 2020


Pronouns: na, ni, nu, nana, nini, nunu

Todo

  • indef article, no def article
  • 4 cases
  • no adj w/o noun
  • SV or VS order, neither dominant
  • 4 genders
  • interrogative word order = object first