Ignan

Natively known as: Iɡnan /Iɡnan/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind... wor rey fao rey yraer waynair wor rey rohu opon pur aosao kar Pronunciation: /ʋor rey fao rey ˈyraer ˈʋaynair ʋor rey ˈrohu ˈopon pur ˈaosao kar/ Ignan word order: and he stood his hat holding and his wet face turned the wind to

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: /d f h k l m n p r s t ʋ/

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n
Stop	p		t d	k
Fricative		f	s		h
Approximant		ʋ
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l

Vowel inventory: /a ae ai ao au ay e i o oi ou u y/
Diphthongs: ae, ai, ao, au, ay, oi, ou

	Front	Back
High	i y	u
High-mid	e	o
Low	a

Syllable structure: Custom defined Stress pattern: Initial — stress is on the first syllable Word initial consonants: d, f, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, ʋ Mid-word consonants: d, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, ʋ Word final consonants: n, r
Phonological changes (in order of application):

• k → c / V_V

How to read phonological rules
Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
ʋ	w
ʔ	ʻ
aː	ā
eː	ē
iː	ī
oː	ō
uː	ū

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Grammar

Main word order: Subject Object Verb (Prepositional phrase). "Mary opened the door with a key" turns into Mary the door opened with a key. Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned before the noun. Adposition: postpositions

Nouns

Nouns have two cases:

• Nominative is the doer of a verb: dog bites man.
• Accusative is the done-to of a verb: man bites dog.

Nominative	No affix fayo /ˈfayo/ doɡ (doinɡ the verb)
Accusative	Suffix -dao fayodao /ˈfayodao/ (verb done to) doɡ

	Singular	Plural
Definite	No affix fayo /ˈfayo/ the doɡ	Suffix -sy fayosy /ˈfayosy/ the doɡs
Indefinite	Suffix -na fayona /ˈfayona/ a doɡ	Suffix -kay fayokay /ˈfayokay/ some doɡs

Articles

Ignan encodes definite article ‘the’, and indefinite article ‘a’ in noun affixes. See Noun section.

Pronouns

	Nominative	Accusative
1st singular	u /u/ I	nai /nai/ me
2nd singular	dye /dye/ you (masc)	ay /ay/ you
3rd singular masc	rey /rey/ he, it	ke /ke/ him, it
3rd singular fem	pey /pey/ she, it	ai /ai/ her, it
1st plural	dae /dae/ we	wae /ʋae/ us
2nd plural	y /y/ you all	sai /sai/ you all
3rd plural	ha /ha/ they	le /le/ them

Possessive determiners

1st singular	u /u/ my
2nd singular	ay /ay/ your
3rd singular masc	rey /rey/ his
3rd singular fem	pey /pey/ her
1st plural	dae /dae/ our
2nd plural	y /y/ your (pl)
3rd plural	ha /ha/ their

Verbs

	Singular	Plural
Present	Suffix -moi saunmoi /ˈsaunmoi/ (I/you/he/she) learns	Suffix -ly saunly /ˈsaunly/ (we/they) learn
Past	Suffix -myi saunmyi /ˈsaunmyi/ (I/you/he/she) learned	Suffix -lu saunlu /ˈsaunlu/ (we/they) learned
Future	Suffix -ha saunha /ˈsaunha/ (I/you/he/she) will learn	Suffix -mey saunmey /ˈsaunmey/ (we/they) will learn

Perfect aspect

The perfect aspect in English is exemplified in ‘I have read this book’, which expresses an event that took place before the time spoken but which has an effect on or is in some way still relevant to the present.
Ignan uses an affix for the perfect aspect:

Perfect

Suffix -rae saunrae /ˈsaunrae/ have learned

Numbers

Ignan has a base-10 number system:
1 - lour 2 - our 3 - naon 4 - olar 5 - wo 6 - an 7 - aodaon 8 - auhaun 9 - in 10 - uhair 11 - lour wor uhair “one and ten” 100 - uhin “hundred” 101 - uhin lour “hundred one” 200 - our uhin 1000 - pau “thousand”

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = Suffix -ʋey Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Suffix -ly Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Suffix -koi Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -no Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Suffix -le Noun to verb = Suffix -dae Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Suffix -sa Tending to = Suffix -kye Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Suffix -dao Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Suffix -dyi One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Suffix -ly Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Suffix -ʋyi Diminutive = Suffix -ʋoi Augmentative = Suffix -so

Dictionary

4374 Words.

Root Languages

• Primordial