Ilya

• See also: Ilya dictionary
• 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 (that tend to be -CVC-) which can be extended into different parts of speech, their meaning changed or modified, with various affixes. Ilya has an extremely regular grammar, with very few exceptions to its rules. Sentences are made up of one or more phrases. Each phrase consists of a verb (optionally followed by modifying particles) and a subject (optionally followed by modifying particles).

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.

• wa-shab-a

1sg-know-PROG

I know. (or I am knowing)

• awe-gan-ó

3.1sg.OBJ-see-HAB

They usually see me.

There are no personal pronouns-- they aren’t needed, since persons are indicated on the verb.

verb modifiers

• -á - progressive [PROG]

ayemá - He is eating.

• -ái - imperative [IMP]

yemái - Eat!

• -bá - negative [NEG]

abáyemá - He is not eating.

• -bó - causative [CAUS]

abóyemá - He causes to eat...

• -é - interrogative [Q]

ayemé - Is he eating?

• -ká - repetitive [REP]

akáyemá - He is eating again.

• -ó - habitual [HAB]

ayemó - He usually eats.

• -sh - past tense [PST]

ashyemá - He ate.

• -tá - tentative [TEN]

ayemtá - He may eat.

• -wí - durative [DUR]

awíyemá - While he eats.

--

• x - future tense [FUT]
• x - augmentative [AUG]
• x - diminutive [DIM]
• x - ability [ABIL]
• x - possibility [POSS]
• x - obligation [OBL]
• x - necessity [NEC]
• x - probably; likely [PROB]
• x - perfect [PFT]
• x - volitive [VOL]
• x - attemptive [ATT]

nouns

pronouns

pronouns

	subject	object	possessive
1 sg	wa-	we-	-wai
2 sg	ga-	ge-	-gai
3	(q)a-	(q)e-	-qai
1 pl	ha-	he-	-hai
2 pl	ya-	ye-	-yai
someone	kí-	kí-	-kai

There are a limited number of deictics and quantifiers:

• kú- - this
• shú- - that (by you)
• ú- - that (over there); other; another
• dá- - same; the same
• ná- - each; every
• kí- - some
• bá- - none

noun modifiers

• wí- - few; a small amount
• kí- - some
• tí- - many; much