The following description is based on the language as spoken in Ayutla, which is known as Tukyo’m Ayuujk in the language.[2][dubious–discuss]
Mendez states that 3,617 communicated in Ayutla Mixe in 2005. The number who were monolingual started decreasing after 1960.[2] The children from San Pedro y San Pablo Ayutla do not speak fluently as their parents because schools only offered instruction in Spanish.[2] In his paper, Romero Mendez states that the Mixe languages including Ayutla Mixe, shares features that relates to the Mayan languages.[2] According to Romero Mendez, there are only a small number of people who still wear traditional clothing which consists mostly of women. In his paper, Romero Mendez states " All the Catholic celebrations are observed in Ayutla, including Easter, the Day of the Dead, and Christmas".[2] A current issue happening in the Ayutla community is their fight for proper access to water.[3] In Agua Para Ayutla Ya, Ordena Juez, Pedro Matias states that the governor of Oaxaca, Alejandro Murat Hinojosa, has not restored the water pipeline that would provide access to water despite being ordered to do so by a federal judge.[3] The Ayutla Mixe community is where Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil comes from and she is a well known linguist.[4] In The Map and the Territory, Yásnaya mentions that people from the Ayutla Mixe community who migrate to the United States believe that the spirit of their community is being recreated in places that are away from their home.[4]
Phonology
This phonology is from the Ayulta dialect.[2] Ayutla Mixe has a total of 12 consonants and seven vowels.[2]
Consonants
The language does not have any liquid sounds; for instance, there are no /l/ or /r/ sounds used in their words. However, both /l/ and /r/ my be used in Spanish loan words.[2]
Below are some examples of vowels and their sounds. These examples show how the change in specific letters can change the meaning of the word.
/a/ vs. /e/
/a/
/e/
/kaj/
[kaj]
/kaj/
[kaj]
‘eat’
/kej/
[kej]
/kej/
[kej]
‘rabbit’
/tamp/
[tampʰ]
/tamp/
[tampʰ]
‘he pours’
/temp/
[tempʰ]
/temp/
[tempʰ]
‘it rolls’
/a/ vs. /i/
/a/
/i/
/taː/
[taː]
/taː/
[taː]
‘then’
/tiː/
[tiː]
/tiː/
[tiː]
‘what’
/a/ vs. /ɤ/
/a/
/ɤ/
/tkaʂn/
[θkaʂnʰ]
/tkaʂn/
[θkaʂnʰ]
‘he had told’
/tkɤʂn/
[θkɤʂnʰ]
/tkɤʂn/
[θkɤʂnʰ]
‘he had punched’
/tkaht/
[θkahtʰ]
/tkaht/
[θkahtʰ]
‘he untied it’
/tkɤht/
[θkɤhtʰ]
/tkɤht/
[θkɤhtʰ]
‘he did it (irrealis)’
/a/ vs. /u/
/a/
/u/
/tkaht/
[θkahtʰ]
/tkaht/
[θkahtʰ]
‘he untied (irrealis)’
/tkuht/
[θkuhtʰ]
/tkuht/
[θkuhtʰ]
‘he threw it away (irrealis)’
/tkamn/
[θkamn̥]
/tkamn/
[θkamn̥]
‘he has fenced it’
/tkumn/
[θkumn̥]
/tkumn/
[θkumn̥]
‘he has stabbed him’
/a/ vs. /ʌ/
/a/
/ʌ/
/maʦ/
[maʦ]
/maʦ/
[maʦ]
‘come!’
/mʌʦ/
[mʌʦ]
/mʌʦ/
[mʌʦ]
‘grab it!’
/tan/
[tan]
/tan/
[tan]
‘stand!’
/tʌn/
[tʌn]
/tʌn/
[tʌn]
‘late’
Plural
In the plural nominal morphology a noun doesn't need to take plural form and if it does there needs to be a human to which a phrase refers. The plural suffix is -tëjk in Ayutla Mixe.[5]
Possessive morphology
In Ayutla Mixe it expresses possessive morphology by adding the following prefix n - first person singular, m - second person singular, y- third person singular.[2]
There are no articles in Ayutla language to define definiteness.
Adjectives
Adjectives are modifiers that can help modify a noun. The adjective can be found after the noun, non-verbal predication, secondary prediction, and it rarely found inside the noun phrase.[2]
Romero - Mendez lists the adjective between the noun and demonstrative below:[2]
Tu'uk mëjnaxy kipy kyäjpn.
tu’uk
one
mëj-näx+y
big+INTENS
kipy
stick
y-käp-n
3S-be.stick-PERF;DEP
tu’uk mëj-näx+y kipy y-käp-n
one big+INTENS stick 3S-be.stick-PERF;DEP
‘There was a big stick.’
Number and numerals in the noun phrase
In Rodrigo Romero - Mendez dissertation paper, A Reference Grammar of Ayutla Mixe (Tukyo’m Ayuujk), states, "The NP jä’äy ‘person’ in (42) can be interpreted as having a singular or plural referent.".[2]
Japëk jä'äy tsyäkäixy.
jajp=ëk
DEIC.D=HEARSAY
jä’äy
person
y-tsäkäj-ex-y
3S-bull-see-DEP
jajp=ëk jä’äy y-tsäkäj-ex-y
DEIC.D=HEARSAY person 3S-bull-see-DEP
‘A person/people was/were looking after cattle’.
The examples listed below by the author, Rodrigo Romero- Mendez, are cardinal numerals or ordinal numerals.[2]
Nëtëkëëk y'ejty.
në-tëkëëk
ANIM-three
y-et-y
3S-exist-DEP
në-tëkëëk y-et-y
ANIM-three 3S-exist-DEP
‘There were three (girls).’
Te’n yä’ät mëtu’uk... yak’ixy.
te’n
V.DEM
yä’ät
DEM.P
më-tu’uk
ORD-one
y-ak-ex-y
3S-CAUS-see-DEP
te’n yä’ät më-tu’uk y-ak-ex-y
V.DEM DEM.P ORD-one 3S-CAUS-see-DEP
‘And that is how we see the first one.’
Possession in NPs
In order to show possession in a noun phrase, a possessive prefix needs to be placed on the noun its possessing and whoever is doing the possession needs to be before the head noun.[2]
The author, Romero - Mendez, gives an example of a possession in a noun phrase below:[2]
The author, Romero - Mendez, gives an example of a head noun only possession below:[2]
Jëts, jajp ijty mteexy mtäsu'nk xmëtätta?
Jëts
and
jajp
DEIC.D
ijty
IMPF
m-teexy
2POSS-dish
m-täs-u'nk
2POSS-cup-DIM
xmëët-ät-t=a
2A-ASSOC-VRBLZ-PL;DEP=Q
Jëts jajp ijty m-teexy m-täs-u'nk xmëët-ät-t=a
and DEIC.D IMPF 2POSS-dish 2POSS-cup-DIM 2A-ASSOC-VRBLZ-PL;DEP=Q
Verbal Morphology
When the inflectional morphology is removed, one is left with the verb stem. The verbal template = verb stem - then person prefix - then aspect-mood suffix.[2] All the possible verbal slots in Ayutla Mixe:[2]
Markers Person
Non-nominal
“Incorporation”
Motion cum purpose
Directional and locative Reflexive
Reflexive
Causative
Applicative
Benefactive
Incorporation slot
Part
Verbal Root (manner)
MainVerbal Root ( Semantic head)
Roots
Desiderative
INV-PERFPL-AM
Word order
The order of the subject with respect to the object or the verb, does not cipher grammatical relations, which makes Mixe a fairly flexible word order of components.
It is normal to find similarities between the order of the object with respect to the verb and the order of other pairs of elements from a typological perspective, such as the ordering of a noun phrase and the adposition or the ordering of a verb and an adverb in a manner.
Ayutla Mixe presents characteristics that may connect with both VO of OV dialects. Indeed, in spite of the fact that it is troublesome to draw generalizations as to which of the two conceivable outcomes in case more fundamental – and in reality it appears best fair to state that Ayutla Mixe has both sorts of characteristics, it is worth displaying the foremost critical of those characteristics as they give valuable data approximately requesting of elements in common within the dialect.
The illustrations for deciding word arrangement have to be taken from content, not from elicitation, as the word arrange can be affected by the contact dialect (which was Spanish) in phonetic elicitation.
Ayutla Mixe does not display a clear inclination of requesting components for the autonomous stamping. S can show up either some time recently or after the verb.
It appeared within the past segment that Mixe does not have a preferred word arranged within the free checked clauses. In subordinate checked clauses, OV word orders are more common than VO. It has appeared that the arrangement of the O with regard to the V has a few relationships with the arrangement of other sets of components. The recognizes between word arrange characteristics that connect bidirectionally with the arrange of verb and protest, and word arrange characteristics that relate unidirectionally.
Word order generalizations
Manner adverb and verb
Possessor and posses sum
Noun phrase and adposition
Standard of comparison, comparison mark and adjective
Verb and adpositional phrases
Verb and non-argument noun phrases
Ayutla Mixe presents characteristics of both VO and OV dialects.
Personal pronouns
1st and 2nd individual pronouns appear a qualification between free and poststressed shapes. Both sorts recognize between solitary and plural and a few of the poststressed pronouns too recognize two case shapes. Free pronouns are utilized fundamentally when the pronoun is fronted for focus. The free pronouns are:
singular
plural
first EX
shuhú
ndɨhɨ
first IN
--
shohō
second
shōhon
ndōho
The noninclusive plural shapes show up to be a combination of ndɨhɨ ‘all’ with the comparing solitary shapes.
Poststressed pronouns have partitioned case shapes for subject and question in 1st and 2nd individual particular and comprehensive, but not in 1st individual select and 2nd individual plural. The post stressed pronouns are:
Subject
Object
singular
plural
singular
plural
first EX
ú
ndɨ
kó
ndɨ
first IN
--
ō
--
kō
second
-n
ndo
o
ndo
Ayutla Mixe has individual pronouns as it were for 1st and 2nd individual, but not for 3rd, demonstratives are utilized for 3rd individual.
Singular
Plural
1st person exclusive
ëjts
ëëts(t)
1st person inclusive
atäm
2nd person
mëjts
meets(t)
3rd person
demonstratives
demonstratives
The set of individual pronouns displayed over can be utilized for any linguistic connection without any extra stamping. In other words, individual pronouns are not checked for case.
Adverbs/adverb phrases
Adverbs are locative, temporal, general intensifying, or interrogative. Locative qualifiers include all locational words that are not things or relational words; they happen basically as locative aides and locative fringe components.
Locative qualifiers are primarily 2 sorts: verb-modifying demonstratives and locative expressions with portion morphemes. There are, in any case, a number of that don't drop into either of those categories which show vicinity or remoteness.
The poststressed forms a ‘here’ and kān ‘there’ are regularly utilized to end word intensifying thing expressions and essential verb modifier expressions. Transient qualifiers are basic or complex; they include all transient words and figures of speech that are not things. They happen as time fringe components.
Temporal adverbs are utilized to demonstrate or arrange the requesting of occasions with regard to the subject time.
In general, they tend to appear at the beginning of the sentence (a) or at the end (b), but some of them also appear after the negative particle ka’t.
Calendrical words can be distinguished because they can take the suffix -ëp.
The words that take the suffix -ëp are:
xëë xëëp ‘days ago’
semään semäänëp ‘weeks ago’ (Spanish loan.)
po’o xo’op ‘months ago’
mes mesëp ‘month ago’ (Spanish loan.)
jëmëjt jëmëjtëp years ago’
General adverbs include all way of words that are not stative verbs. They are simple or complex.
Types of clauses or sentences
In unbiased autonomous angle, the non-verbal predicate shows up in juxtaposition with the subject, without any obvious copula. More often than not, the non-verbal predicate shows up in the introductory position and the subject shows up after it.
”In non-verbal predication there is a form that will be called dependent conjugation in analogy with inflectional dependency in non-verbal predication. The dependent conjugation only arises when there is a negative particle, even if there is no copula, and it is marked using the person prefixes for intransitive verbs in the adjective (namely n- for the first person, m- for the second person and y- for the third person) and by changing the word order. In negative sentences, the negative typically appears in initial position, followed by the subject, and finally the adjectival predicate, marked with a person prefix.” [2]
A major contrast between verbal and non-verbal predication is that within the last mentioned the dependency is stamped as it were within the nearness of a negative molecule and in no other settings.
Things are moreover utilized as non-verbal predicates. As appeared for descriptive words, the main predicate shows up more often than not in starting position, and it shows up in juxtaposition with the subject.
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