Miskito grammar

This article provides a grammar sketch of the Miskito language, the language of the Miskito people of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua and Honduras, a member of the Misumalpan language family. There also exists a brief typological overview of the language that summarizes the language's most salient features of general typological interest in more technical terms.
Phonology
Phonemes

The exact status of vowel length is not clear; long vowels are not consistently indicated in Miskito writing.

Suprasegmentals
Word stress is generally on the first syllable of each word.
Phonotactics
Noun phrase
Determiners and quantifiers
Ligature
Ligature is a useful term (with precedents in other languages) for describing a grammatical feature of Miskito traditionally referred to with less accuracy in the Miskito context as 'construct'. A ligature is a morpheme (often -ka) which occurs when a noun...