| Modern Uraki | |
| Pronunciation | Unknown |
| Period | ca. 1300AK- |
| Spoken in | Bawim islands, Eastern Amutet |
| Total speakers | Unknown |
| Writing system | Uraki logogram |
| Classification | Ulitan Western Ulitan Fish River South Fish River Uraki |
| Typology | |
| Basic word order | SVO |
| Morphology | isolating |
| Alignment | Neutral(Nominative-Accusative marked purely by word order) |
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| Created by | k1234567890y |
Modern Uraki is spoken in the red area
Modern Uraki is a Western Ulitan language spoken on the Bawim islands near the southeast Amutet by the Nanarulamuts.
Modern Uraki evolves from Classical Uraki and is written using the Uraki logogram, and since the grammar of Modern Uraki is similar to that of Classical Uraki, Modern Uraki can still read documents written in Classical Uraki.
Since the grammatical of Modern Uraki and Classical Uraki does not differ significantly, and Modern Uraki still uses the Uraki logogram, the written form of Modern Uraki is almost identical to the written form of Classical Uraki, and speakers of Modern Uraki can still read texts written in Classical Uraki without difficulty even most of the Modern Uraki speakers don't know the pronunciation of characters of the Uraki logogram in Classical Uraki.
Phonology[]
| labials | dentoalveolars | palatals | velars/glottals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nasals | m | n | ||
| plosives | p b | t d | k g | |
| sonorants/fricatives | w | r l | j | h |
- The syllable-final /h/ of Classical Uraki has disappeared in Modern Uraki, which created pitch accents in certain dialets.
- Although fricatives are not phonemic, it is known that in some dialects, /t/ is assibilated to [s] before /i/ and /i:/.
| front | central | back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| high | i i: | u u: | |
| mid | e | ə | o |
| low | a |
syllable structure: (C)V(C), voiced plosives are de-voiced in syllable codas.
stress: ultimate, fixed on the stem
/i:/ is transcripted as <í>; /u:/ is transcripted as <ú>; /j/ is transcripted as <y>; /ə/ is transcripted as <ë>.
Grammar[]
- Basic word order: SVO
- Adpositions are prepositions
The basic word order is SVO, but it is possible to use the VOS and the OSV word order to mark the topic of a sentence.
some words[]
pronouns:
personal pronouns:
Independent forms:
- 1st sg: yam
- 2nd sg: yat
- 3rd sg: a
- 1st pl: ki(exclusive)/kari(inclusive)
- 2nd pl: ri
- 3rd pl: ye
- refl: tu
adhere forms:
- 1st sg: ka
- 2nd sg: ra
- 3rd sg: a
- 1st pl: ki(exclusive)/kari(inclusive)
- 2nd pl: ri
- 3rd pl: i
personal pronouns can directly put after a noun to mark the possessor of a noun.
morphologically, the adhere forms of pronouns are a part of the verbal phrase, they are actually subject agreements of the verb, but they are still seen as full-standing words. Adhere forms are not dropped even if the subject is a pronoun:
- yam ka ik yat. - I see you(one can also say "ka ik yat" to convoy the same meaning, but the form "yam ka ik yat" emphasizes the subject).
- natu-ya a ik huk - The person sees huks.
interrogative pronouns:
- who: me
- what: ma
demonstratives:
- this: ami
- that: aya
- the: ya(definite article, also used to start the relative clause)
prepositions:
- at/in/on: at
- to: am
- from: ak
- with/and: ap
- using: arik
- for/because: aruk
- through: aptam/adi
numerals:
the numeral system is base-10:
- one: ami
- two: to
- three: alí
- four: malí
- five: karik(same as "hand")
- six: karkami
- seven: karto
- eight: karkalí
- nine: karmalí
- ten: tarik
- eleven: tarik-ami/tarkami
- twelve: tarik-to/tarto
- thirteen: tarik-alí/tarkalí
- fourteen: tarik-malí/tarmalí
- fifteen: tarik-karik/tarkarik
- sixteen: tarik-karkami
- seventeen: tarik-karto
- eightteen: tarik-karkalí
- nineteen: tarik-karmalí
- twenty: mëna
- thirteen: alí tarik
- fourty: malí tarik
- fifty: karik tarik
- sixty: karkami tarik
- seventy: karto tarik
- eighty: karkalí tarik
- ninety: karmalí tarik
- ordinal number: ha-
- ever: humu
- never: hunggamu
- seldom: humeral
- sometimes: humar
- often: hunggaman
- usually/always: hëwam-hëwam
- once: hëwam ami
- twice: hëwam to
- thrice/three times: hëwam alí
- four times: hëwam malí
- five times: hëwam karik
...
- first time: hëwam ha-ami
- second time: hëwam ha-to
- third time: hëwam ha-alí
- fourth time: hëwam ha-malí
- fifth time: hëwam ha-karik
...
reduplication of numerals can be used for distributive numerals(for the definition of distributive numerals, one can read http://wals.info/chapter/54 )
conjunctions:
- and/also: i/kaye~ke(originally mean "also, completely")
- or: ta
- even: tata
- but: amar