Yami language

Yami is the only native language of Taiwanese indigenous peoples that is not a member of the Formosan grouping of Austronesian; it is one of the Batanic languages also found in Batanes province of northern Philippines, and as such is part of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian. ==Phonology==

Yami has 20 consonants and 4 vowels: Vowels • can be heard as after labial stop consonants. Iraralay Yami, spoken on the north coast, distinguishes between geminative consonants (e.g., 'thigh' vs. 'hen' form one such minimal pair). Consonants • can also be heard as sounds when between vowel intervocalically. • Sounds can be heard as sounds before . ==Grammar==

Pronouns The following set of pronouns is found in the Yami language. Verbs The following list are verbal inflections found in Yami. ;Dynamic intransitive • (subjunctive: ) • • • • • ;Stative • (subjunctive: ) • (subjunctive: ) ;Dynamic • • • (subjunctive: ) • (subjunctive: ) • (subjunctive: ) ;Transitive • (subjunctive: ) • (subjunctive: ) • (subjunctive: ) ;Stative functioning as transitive • (subjunctive: ) • (subjunctive: ) Affixes The following is a list of affixes found in Yami. • 'fellows such and such who share the same features or fate' • 'even more so' • 'feel such and such because...' • 'ordinal number' • 'multiple number' • 'negation or emphatic' • 'company, as ... as, abstract noun' • 'and then, just now, only' • 'stative verb prefix reappearing in forming transitive verbs' • (reduplicated root) 'very' • (reduplicated root) 'animals named after certain features' • 'common noun' • 'love to do such and such' • 'pretend to be such and such' • 'do such and such as an occupation' • 'kinship relationships in a group of two or three' • 'all, gradually, one by one' • 'taste or look like...' • 'getting more and more...' • 'even more...' • 'causative verb affixes' • 'perfective' • 'superlative' • 'past' • 'future (remote)' • - 'present' • 'future (proximal)' • 'direction' • 'very, too' • (reduplicated root) 'amount allocated to each unit ==Vocabulary==

Cognates with Philippine languages Japanese loanwords Chinese loanwords ==See also==