Miyako
Facts
- Language: Miyako
- Alternate names:
- Language code: mvi
- Language family: Japonic, Ryukyuan, Southern Ryukyu
- Number of speakers: Ethnic population
- Script: Category
More information:
Introduction
Miyako is a language of Japan. It is spoken in Southern Okinawa; Miyako, Ogami, Ikema, Kurima, Irabu, Tarama, Minna islands.
Dialects
Irabu-Jima, Miyako-Jima (Hirara, Ogami), Tarama-Minna. Not intelligible of Ryukyuan languages and Japanese (See: Japanese). Dialects listed have noticeable differences, but communication is not impossible.
The Miyako Verb
Verblist
- あーㇲ゙
- 有ーㇲ゙
- うきㇲ゙
- 起きㇲ゙
- 押す
- カヴ
- くみーㇲ゙
- 込みーㇲ゙
- すてぃㇲ゙
- 捨てぃㇲ゙
- たたきぃ
- 叩きぃ
- つぃふーㇲ゙
- 作ーㇲ゙
- ばーㇲ゙
- 割ーㇲ゙
- ぴなㇲ゙
- ふぉー
- 食ー
- まーㇲ゙さまーㇲ゙
- まさーㇲ゙
- 勝ーㇲ゙
- afky -- to yawn
- akiy -- to open, uncover
- ay -- to say
- ayky -- to walk
- barō -- to laugh
- bay -- to split
- biy -- to sit
- cypaky -- to spit
- fky -- to blow
- fō -- to eat
- ikydidu wwy -- to live, be alive
- iraby -- to choose
- juby -- to suck
- jum -- to count
- jumi’udu mīy -- to dream
- kaby -- to sniff, smell
- kaffy -- to hide
- kaky -- to scratch
- kam -- to bite
- kam -- to chew
- kō -- to buy
- kurus -- to kill
- kyky -- to hear
- kys -- to come
- kys -- to cut, hack
- magay -- to turn
- mās -- to burn
- mīy -- to see
- mucy -- to hold
- munu skōy -- to cook
- nagariy -- to flow
- naky -- to cry
- niv -- to sleep
- nū -- to sew
- num -- to drink
- nusum -- to steal
- nūy -- to climb
- paky -- to vomit
- sn -- to die, be dead
- tuby -- to fly
- ujugy -- to swim
- umuy -- to think