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===Orthography===
===Orthography===
====Romanisation====
====Romanisation====
The Ilda romanisation is mostly directly phonetic, although some digraphs, like ⟨sw⟩ and ⟨zw⟩ are pronounced <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiceless post-alveolar fricative|ʃ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> and <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced post-alveolar fricative|ʒ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> respectively. Additionally, the symbol ⟨γ⟩ is pronounced <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced velar fricative|ɣ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>, and the digraphs ⟨pt⟩ and ⟨bd⟩ are pronounced [ʔt] and [ʔd].
The Ilda romanisation is mostly directly phonetic, although some digraphs, like ⟨sw⟩ and ⟨zw⟩ are pronounced <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiceless post-alveolar fricative|ʃ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> and <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced post-alveolar fricative|ʒ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> respectively. Additionally, the symbol ⟨γ⟩ is pronounced <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:Voiced velar fricative|ɣ]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>, and the digraphs ⟨pt⟩ and ⟨bd⟩ are pronounced [tt] and [dd].
 
===Consonants===
===Consonants===
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|-
|-
! Nasal
! Nasal
| m || ɱ || || n || || ŋ || ɲ || ||
| m || (ɱ) || || n || || ŋ || ɲ || ||
|-
|-
! Fricative
! Fricative
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|-
! Lateral Approximant
! Lateral Approximant
| || || l̪ || l || || || ʎ || ||
| || || () || l || || || ʎ || ||
|}
|}
/l̪/ and /ɱ/ are allophones of /l/ and /m/ respectively, before labiodental consonants, e.g. in {{cont|ā'''l'''va|y}} [ˈaːl̪va] "nut" or {{cont|agī'''m'''fi|y}} [aˈɡiːɱfi] "granddaughter".
Voiceless plosives apart from /q/ are aspirated when stressed, as in ''dinuɣ'' [[Help:IPA|[dinuɣ]]] and ''iswodinuɣ'' [[Help:IPA|[iʃoˈdʰinuɣ]]].


===Vowels===
===Vowels===
===Prosody===
===Prosody===
====Stress====
====Stress====
In Ilda, stress falls oxytonically, or on the last syllable. However, if a word contains the graph ⟨ā⟩, stress falls on the syllable that contains the ⟨ā⟩.
In Ilda, stress falls oxytonically, or on the last syllable. However, if a syllable contains a long vowel, stress falls on that syllable regardless of its position.


===Phonotactics===
===Phonotactics===
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Ilda has three noun cases- the '''[[w:Genitive case|genitive case]]''', the '''[[w:Accusative case|accusative case]]''' and the '''[[w:Dative case|dative case]]'''.
Ilda has three noun cases- the '''[[w:Genitive case|genitive case]]''', the '''[[w:Accusative case|accusative case]]''' and the '''[[w:Dative case|dative case]]'''.
=====Genitive case=====
=====Genitive case=====
The genitive case is denoted with the suffix ''-aska/āska'', save for the word ''[[Contionary:tāsnaq|tāsnaq]]''(meaning "horse"), where instead the prefix ''o-'' is used. The suffix most likely comes from the Proto-Yeldhic inset ''-asẘa-''. The prefix ''o-'' most likely comes from Proto-Ildaïc, where the prefix ''*ṓ-'' was used to denote possession of an object<ref>This feature is not found in Proto-Yeldhic.</ref>.<br>
The genitive case is denoted with the suffix ''-aska/āska'', save for the word ''[[Contionary:tāsnaq|tāsnaq]]''(meaning "horse"), where instead the prefix ''o-'' is used. The suffix most likely comes from the Proto-Yeldhic inset ''*-asẘa-''. The prefix ''o-'' most likely comes from Proto-Ildaïc, where the prefix ''*ṓ-'' was used to denote possession of an object<ref>This feature is not found in Proto-Yeldhic.</ref>.<br>


'''Example:''' ''Us otāsnaq uswas''(The ''height of '' the horse)
'''Example:''' ''Us otāsnaq uswas''(The ''height of '' the horse)
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[[Category:Yeldhic languages]]
[[Category:Yeldhic languages]]
[[Category:Conlangs]]
[[Category:Conlangs]]
[[Category:Radael]]