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==Todo==
==Todo==
reuse Netagin words
reuse Netagin words
Maytyarri is a minor language of [[Tricin]]. It's spoken in the ___ Mountains.
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==
''ikuu'' = 'self'
==Phonology==
Based on Australian/Tamil.
===Consonants===
p t ʈ c k
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 (indep.)===
*''ndu'' = I
*''nāri'' = thou
*''vuṭa'' = he/she (indep.)
*''pāri'' = we
*''ḷtāntu'' = ye
*''navuṭa'' = they


*''ṇnaṇuna'' = grandmother
*''ṇnaṇuna'' = grandmother
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*''ḷkaḷaṇālā''
*''ḷkaḷaṇālā''
*''ḷdakūna'' = gap
*''ḷdakūna'' = gap
*''vuṭa'' = he/she (indep.)


Numbers: ḷkāma, aḷda, khecha, tubaḷa, makaśa, pazīma, albāṇa, ṇthāvata, zaṇata, yāta, zāḷūta
Numbers: ḷkāma, aḷda, khecha, tubaḷa, makaśa, pazīma, albāṇa, ṇthāvata, zaṇata, yāta, zāḷūta
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