Ilya

Introduction and Morphology

• Ilya is an agglutinative language.
• Suffixes predominate Ilya morphology, though there is a small number of prefixes. Verbs can express tense and aspect, and they agree with the subject in person and number. There is no grammatical gender in Ilya, nor are pronouns marked for natural gender.

Phonology

consonants

Ilya consonants

	Labial		Alveolar		Post- alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m		n
Stop	p	b	t	d					k	ɡ
Affricate			t͡s		t͡ʃ
Fricative	f	v	s	z	ʃ	ʒ					h
Approximant				l				j		w
Flap				ɾ

vowels

• a - /a~ə/
• e - /e~ɛ/
• i - /i~ɪ/
• o - /o~ɔ/
• u - /u~ʊ/
• ai - /aɪ/