| 词条 | Maay Maay |
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|name=Maay |nativename=Af-Maay |states=Somalia; significant communities in Ethiopia, Kenya, North America, and Yemen. |speakers=3.9million in Somalia |date=2016 |ref=e18 |speakers2= |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=Cushitic |fam3=Lowland East |fam4=Somali |script=Maay alphabet (Latin script) |nation=Somalia |iso3=ymm |glotto=maay1238 |glottorefname=Maay }}{{Culture of Somalia}} Maay Maay (also known as Af-Maay, Af-Maymay, Rahanween, Rahanweyn or simply Maay, and sometimes spelled Mai Mai) is a dialect of the Somali language of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. It is spoken mostly in Somalia and adjacent parts of Ethiopia and Kenya. Its speakers are known as Sab Somalis. The centre of the dialect is around Baidoa. The dialect is written using the Latin script. OverviewSomali linguistic varieties are divided into three main groups: Northern, Benadir and Maay. Northern Somali (or Northern-Central Somali) forms the basis for Standard Somali.[1] Maay is principally spoken by the Digil and Mirifle (Rahanweyn or Sab) clans in the southern regions of Somalia.[1] Its speech area extends from the southwestern border with Ethiopia to a region close to the coastal strip between Mogadishu and Kismayo, including the city of Baidoa.[2] Maay is not mutually comprehensible with Northern Somali or Benadir, and it differs considerably in sentence structure and phonology.[3] It is also not generally used in education or media. However, Maay speakers often use Standard Somali as a lingua franca,[2] which is learned via mass communications, internal migration and urbanisation.[3] GrammarSoundsMaay Maay exhibits significant amounts of epenthesis, inserting central or high-central vowels to break up consonant clusters. Vowel length is contrastive; minimal pairs such as bur 'flour' and buur 'mountain' are attested. WordsMaay Maay is fairly agglutinative. It has complex verb forms, inflecting at least for tense/aspect and person/number of both subject and object. There is also a prefix indicating negation. In addition, verbs exhibit derivational morphology, including a causative and an applicative. Nominal morphology includes a definiteness suffix, whose form depends on the gender of the head noun, and possessive suffixes. SentencesMaay Maay exhibits SVO and SOV word orders, apparently in fairly free variation. When the object is postverbal, the prefix maay appears on the verb. Within the noun phrase, the head noun is generally initial. Possessors, adjectives and some strong quantifiers follow the head noun. Numerals and the indefinite quantifier precede the head noun. References1. ^1 {{Harvcoltxt|Dalby|1998|p=571}} 2. ^1 {{cite book|last=Saeed|first=John|year=1999|title=Somali|location=Amsterdam|publisher=John Benjamins|page=4|isbn=1-55619-224-X}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|title=Maay - A language of Somalia|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/ymm|publisher=Ethnologue|accessdate=7 May 2013}} External links
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