Memoni Grammar and Sentence Structure It is generally recognized that the Memoni language is originate from an ancient Sindhi which is belongs to an Indo-Iranian (North-Western Zone) family of languages. NOUNS: Like many Indian languages, Memoni nouns are either masculine or feminine and they could have singular and plural forms. The Memons borrow vast majorities of the nouns from Hindustani (mixture of Urdu & Hindi) languages A
Nouns is a person, place or thing. a man - akro maru ; she is a girl - ee akry chockery eye - that is my book - ee meji chopry eye
PRONOUN The pronouns are small words which substitute nouns, he, you, ours, themselves, some, each. In Memoni the pronouns are divided into fewer categories than English 1. Subject Pronouns: Unlike in English, the 2nd person singular "You" is segregated a polite form use for a respect generally for a stranger, elderly and well respected persons including parent and relatives and the second is informal form use among the friends, parent and elderly relatives addressing to younger family members etc. Furthermore, the third person singular (he, she, it) and plural (they) including demonstrative pronouns (this these, those) are divided into two category one for near object and person and second for far object and person. (more research is needed to support this conclusion)
2. Other Pronouns:
In addition these pronouns are either masculine or feminine and must agree to the object noun.
PROPOSITION: Unlike English, the Memoni the proposition is generally comes after a noun or a verb Pakistan may - in Pakistan ADJECTIVES: Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in a sentence Like English, the position of Memoni adjectives nearly always appear
immediately before the noun that they modify. ARTICLES, DETERMINERS AND QUANTIFIER:
Articles, determiners, and quantifiers are
those little words that precede and modify nouns:
Determiners are used in front of nouns
to indicate whether you are referring to something specific or
something of a particular type. Quantifiers: bahuj kum too much work
Verbs carry the idea of being or action in
the sentence.
In a Memoni sentence, a verb generally appears at the end of the sentence. Memoni verb may vary (inflected) in form, (there are very few form) according to many factors, including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. It also agree with the person, gender, and/or number of some of its arguments (subject, object, etc.). Note more research may be needed. EXAMPLES |