alakeeli
Ingrian
Etymology
From ala- (“sub-”) + keeli (“language”).
Pronunciation
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈɑlɑˌkeːli/
- Hyphenation: a‧la‧kee‧li
Noun
alakeeli (genitive alakeelen, partitive alakeeltä)
- lect, dialect (a form of communication lower than a language)
- 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:
- Iƶorat elläät Leningradan oblastin eri paikois, eri raijonois ja sentää iƶoran keeli senen mukkaa jakahuu eri dialektoihe, eri alakeelii.
- Ingrians live in varous places of the Leningrad Oblast, various raions, and therefore, because of this, the Ingrian language is divided into various dialects, various lesser languages.
Declension
| Declension of alakeeli (type 5/keeli, no gradation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | alakeeli | alakeelet |
| genitive | alakeelen | alakeeliin |
| partitive | alakeeltä | alakeeliä |
| illative | alakeelee | alakeelii |
| inessive | alakeelees | alakeeliis |
| elative | alakeelest | alakeelist |
| allative | alakeelelle | alakeelille |
| adessive | alakeeleel | alakeeliil |
| ablative | alakeelelt | alakeelilt |
| translative | alakeeleks | alakeeliks |
| essive | alakeelennä, alakeeleen | alakeelinnä, alakeeliin |
| exessive1) | alakeelent | alakeelint |
| 1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. | ||