Northern Ivili Language
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| Ivili | |
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| Şotī Ekuşemīn | |
| Pronunciation | /aɪdʒaɪlaɪ/  |
| Native to | |
| Region | Şotīko Archipelago in Olivacia |
| Ethnicity | Stonish |
Native speakers | L1: 3,200,000+ (2018) L2: 4,335,000+ FL: 25,000+ |
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| Official status | |
Official language in | |
Recognised minority language in | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ivl |
| Linguasphere | TBA |
| File:TBA | |
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History
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Geographic distribution
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Classification
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Regional variants
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Phonology
Overview
Standard Ivili has traditionally operated under a Verb–subject–object word order (VSO), and this has been true for the entirety of the languages existence. It is also worth noting that in Ivili, Possession is typically ordered possessee before possessor. The Ivili language has five grammatical cases, and typically relies heavily on context to determine singularity, plurality, and depending on the sentence, tenses. Ivili has just seventeen phonemes, making the language the simplest of the four that are native to the Şotīko archipelago.
Alphabet
The transition from a Runic alphabet to a Latin script took place over the span of roughly a decade, likely beginning sometime in the mid nineteenth century. However, the Latin script wouldn't be officially adopted by the Kingdom of Flatstone until 1911, when it was standardized. Despite this, the Latin alphabet had risen in popularity on it's own, first being used en masse by the merchant class of Flatstone at the turn of the 19th century, and being spread through relatives via letters, newspaper articles, etc. Today, the Ivili alphabet consists of fifteen letters:
| Ā ā | B b | K k | D d | E e | G g | Ī ī | J j |
| L l | M m | N n | O o | P p | Ş ş | U u |
| Order | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
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| Majuscule | Ā | B | K | D | E | G | Ī | J | L | M | N | O | P | Ş | U |
| Minuscule | ā | b | k | d | e | g | ī | j | l | m | n | o | p | ş | u |
| IPA Sound | e͡i | b | k | d | e | a͡i | g | j | l | m | n | o | p | ʃ | u |
Phonetics
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | Laryngeal | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bilabial | Labiodental | Linguolabial | Dental | Alveolar | Postal-veolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||||||||
| Nasal | m (m) |
n (n) |
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| Plosive | p (p) |
b (b) |
t (t) |
d (d) |
k (k) |
g (g) |
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| Sibilant fricative | s (s) |
ʃ (ш) |
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| Approximant | j (j) |
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| Latelar approximant | l (l) |
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| Tongue position | Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |||||
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| Close | u (u) | |||||||||
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| Close-mid | e (є) |
o (o) | ||||||||
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| Open | ||||||||||
| Diphthong | e͡i (ei) ~ a͡i (ai) | |||||||||
Grammar
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