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It is spoken in a secluded cluster of settlements in one of the Ryu Kyu Islands by some 700 people, originally fishermen and workers who had left Minhay for Japan but ended up fleeing for the Ryu Kyus to avoind getting involved in the happenings of WWI. About 37% of the CSD speakers are monolingual, 60% are CSD-Uchinaaguchi bilinguals and 3% speak CSD, Uchinaaguchi and also Japanese (1996 census data). | It is spoken in a secluded cluster of settlements in one of the Ryu Kyu Islands by some 700 people, originally fishermen and workers who had left Minhay for Japan but ended up fleeing for the Ryu Kyus to avoind getting involved in the happenings of WWI. About 37% of the CSD speakers are monolingual, 60% are CSD-Uchinaaguchi bilinguals and 3% speak CSD, Uchinaaguchi and also Japanese (1996 census data). | ||
Typologically, as is the case with Minhast, the CSD is ergative and polysynthetic, with ergativity surfacing both at the morphologic and syntactic levels and a highly agglutinative verbal morphology, performing noun incorporation and other complex valence operations. | |||
The unmarked word order is SOV. Even though some deviation from this word order is allowed for discourse purposes (e.g. an argument that is to be focused is fronted to the head of the clause or in compound and complex sentences), the verb rarely deviates from its clause-final position and the order of the other arguments of the clause (core, oblique, and sentential complements) is not as flexible as in Minhast proper. | |||
== Dialectology == | == Dialectology == | ||
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== Phonology and Orthography == | == Phonology and Orthography == | ||