Yagaria language

• /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
• /${\displaystyle \varepsilon ^{i}}$/ - 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
• /${\displaystyle o^{u}}$/ - Voiced mid close rounded back vocoid gliding to high close rounded back, occurring word initially, medially, and finally
• /a/ - Voiced low open unrounded central vocoid occurring word initially, medially, and finally
• /${\displaystyle a^{\varepsilon }}$/ - Voiced unrounded central-front
• /${\displaystyle a^{o}}$/ - Voiced central-back[2]

There are four syllable patterns used in the Yagaria language. The four are V, CV, CVC, and VC where CV is the most used. Vowels and glides can be used in any of the four syllable patterns. Any consonant can be used for the first constant in the patterns of CV, and CVC. The final constant can only be used if it is a glottal stop for patterns CVC, and VC.[3]

Personal, Possessive, Emphatic, and Interrogative pronouns are used. Personal and Possessive pronouns happens in free word and affixed forms. Emphatic pronoun occurs in suffixes.[4]

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

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 nouns 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 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:

Yagaria has a distinction between primary and secondary adjectives. Primary adjectives are used to determine the morphological behavior of "adjectives". Secondary adjectives are obtained from nouns or verbs, or local or temporal expressions occurring as noun adjuncts.[2]

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.