Ilya
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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.
- See also: Ilya dictionary
Phonology
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/
Syntax
Nouns
Determiners
Pronouns
| Number | |||
| Singular | Plural | ||
| Person | First | na | nuk |
| Second | te | tum | |
| Third | il | hum | |
