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= Yagaria =

Dialects
Yagaria consists of eight main dialects.

== Phonology ==

Phonemes
==== Consonants ====


 * /p/ - Voiceless, bilabial, unaspirated stop
 * /b/ - Voiced, bilabial stop
 * /t/ - Voiceless alveolar unaspirated stop
 * /d/ - Voiced alveolar stop
 * /k/ - Voiceless velar unaspirated stop
 * /g/ - Velar consonant
 * /ʔ/ - Voiceless glottal stop
 * /f/ - Voiceless fricative consonant
 * /v/ - Voiced fricative consonant
 * /h/ - Voiceless glottal fricative
 * /s/ - Voiceless alveolar grooved fricative
 * /m/ - Voiced bilabial nasal
 * /n/ - Voiced alveolar nasal
 * /l̩/ -Voiced velar lateral
 * /y/ - Voiced alveolar-alveopalatal

Vowels

 * /i/ - Voiced high close unrounded front vocoid occurring word initially, medially, and finally
 * /ɛ/ - Voiced mid open unrounded front vocoid gliding to high close unrounded front, occurring word initially, medially, and finally
 * /$$\varepsilon^i$$/ - Voiced mid open unrounded front vocoid gliding to high close unrounded front, occurring word initially, medially, and finally
 * /u/ - Voiced high close rounded back vocoid occurring word initially, medially, and finally
 * /o/ - Voiced mid close rounded back vocoid occurring word initially, medially, and finally

Distribution of Phonemes
There are four syllable patterns used in the Yagaria language. The four are V, CV, CVC, and VC where CV is the most used.

Morphology
=== Pronouns === Personal, Possessive, Emphatic, and Interrogative pronouns are used. Personal and Possessive pronouns happens in free word and affixed forms. Emphatic pronoun occurs in suffixes.

=== Nouns === The main noun classes used in the Yagaria language are Class 1 and Class 2.

Class 1
Nouns can indicate living and non living objects. They occur in two forms, long form where carrying suffix -na, and short form where the suffix is removed and ends with a glottal stop. Long form are used less and mostly for citation, some as a subject, and mostly used in intransitive clauses. Examples of using Long forms

Long forms as an object:

Short forms as subject in intransitive clause and as an object:

Class 2
Class 2 nouns have some ending in -na, and is never omitted. Suffixation happens after that syllable.

Examples: Class 2 nouns that behave somewhat like class 1 nouns.They carry suffix -'na, has short form without ending in a glottal stop. All suffixation occurs with long form carrying the suffix -'na.

Examples:

=== Adjectives === Primary and Secondary Adjectives are used in the Yagaria Language. Primary adjectives are used to determine the morphological behaviorist of "adjectives". Secondary adjectives are obtained from nouns or verbs, or local or temporal expressions occurring as noun adjuncts.

Primary adjectives
Morphological pattern of class 1 nouns, and class 2 nouns are the two groups being used in the primary adjectives. Most adjectives have short or not-suffixed form for attributive occurrence, and long or suffixed form for predicative occurrence.

Class 1 Examples: Class 2 Examples:

== Numerals == Numbers are made using a system of only one, two, and fives. The sum of numbers are usually expressed by hands and feet.