Miya | |
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Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Bauchi State |
Native speakers | (30,000 cited 1995)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mkf |
Glottolog | miya1266 |
Miya (Miyawa) is a Chadic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria.[1] It is also referred to as "vә́na mίy" translating to "mouth of miy".[2] There are approximately 5,000 speakers of Miya. It is related to languages such as Hausa, which the Miya people sometimes borrow from.
Grammar
[edit]Verb morphology
[edit]Miya's verb morphology is suprasegmental, where the masculine first person is marked with a high tone.
Noun classes
[edit]Miya's noun class is divided between feminine and masculine, as well as a divider on morphology between animate and inanimate nouns. Noun classes where all nouns are under the class of feminine of masculine is called grammatical gender.
Notes
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Russell G. Schuh. 1998. A Grammar of Miya. University of California Publications in Linguistics 130. Berkeley: University of California Press.
External links
[edit]- Miya language materials from UCLA