Ilya

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• See also: Ilya phrases

• á é í ó ú

sounds

consonants

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar	Glottal
Plosives	p   b	t   d		k   g		ʔ (q)
Nasals	m	n
Fricatives		s	ʃ (sh)
Approximants		l	j (y)		w	h
Trill		r

vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

grammar

Ilya is an agglutinating language. Its vocabulary consists of basic roots which can be extended into different parts of speech, their meaning changed or modified, with various suffixes. Most of the suffixes are optional, so that there is a choice of what sort of information to convey with a given word.

verbs

Ilya relies on verbs and their modifiers to express many subtleties of meaning, the Ilya verb can generally function as a verb, adjective, or preposition, but the rules of use are very simple.

tenses

Verbs have two tenses indicated by conjugation, past (-esh) and nonpast (-Ø). The semantic difference between present and future is not indicated by means of conjugation. Usually there is no ambiguity as context makes it clear whether the speaker is referring to the present or future. Voice and aspect are also indicated by means of conjugation, and possibly agglutinating auxiliary verbs.

• xx?

xx

xx?

• xx

know.1s

I know.

verb modifiers

• i- - reflexive
• ba- - negative
• -sh - past tense
• -é - interrogative
• -a - progressive
• -ó - habitual

nouns

number

• x - horse
• x - horses

pronouns

Both subject and object are marked on the verb; however, there is no indication of whether either is singular or plural (except for ‘you’ objects). For convenience I offer a list of some possible combinations.

• xx - xx
• xx - xx
• xx - xx
• xx - xx

prefixes

• wa- - first person singular
• ha(n)- - first person plural
• ya- - second person singular
• (q)a- - second person plural

There are no personal pronouns - they aren’t needed, since persons are indicated on the verb. There are a limited number of deictics and quantifiers:

• ku- - this
• shu- - that (by you)
• u- - that (over there); other; another
• wi- - same; the same
• ni- - each; every
• le- - some
• ba- - none

noun classes

• x- - people; places
• x- - trees; weather; natural phenomena
• x- - groups of objects; collective
• x- - tools; artifacts
• x- - body parts and functions
• x- - animals; noises
• x- / a- - abstract; null

adpositions

locative affixes

• x- - static location
• x- - inside of an object
• x- - under water
• x- - into water
• x- - on top of
• x- - under
• x- - through
• x- - out of
• x- - above or over
• x- - in the air
• x- - across

• x- - on / at / away from
• x- - along / back to
• x- - over there
• x- - to / towards