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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 | ||
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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