Muyu language
language in Papua
Muyu, Moyu, is one of the Ok languages of South Papua, Indonesia.
Based on available resources, linguists divided it to two varieties Kadi (North Muyu) and South Muyu. However, according to native speakers, it may be a dialect continuum of 9 mutually intelligible dialects which also include Ningrum and Yonggom. Petabahasa by Indonesia Ministry of Education classified it to three languages, Kadi spoken in Kampung Woropko, South Muyu spoken in Kampung Anggumbit, and Muyu in Kampung Kamka.
Phonology
The stop consonants are represented orthographically as either voiceless ⟨p, t, k⟩ or voiced ⟨b, d, g⟩ consonants, reflecting the language's allophonic rules.
Grammar
Overview
The typical constituent order of a clause in Muyu is verb final. Role marking of core arguments is largely done through subject agreement on finite verbs, with a small number of verbs also indexing their object, and some verbs displaying verbal number alternations. Nouns lack bound morphology; postpositions, relational nouns, and a multipurpose oblique clitic serve to mark peripheral roles, while core arguments are unmarked by default. Verbs are morphologically complex; in addition to indexing their participants, they also take suffixes indicating aspect and mood, they may be marked for switch-reference, and there are a number of non-finite forms. Complex predicates are frequent in Muyu, including light verb constructions, auxiliary verbs, and multi-verb constructions, where each verb contributes its lexical meaning to express a complex event.
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