Ianh Verbs
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Verbs are declined in an agglutinative way. The first prefix indicates evidentiality, the second tense and aspect. Behind the stem, there can be a mood suffix.
Note that there are no prepositions, so there is no verb "to be" as in English. Instead, there are special verbs to express direction and location.
Evidentiality
If you leave the evidentiality prefix out, you're expressing a suspition. You're not really sure of what you're saying. Otherwise you can choose among three prefixes:
- Experience: ui-
- Observation: tha-
- Hearsay: ua-
Tense and Aspect
Ianh dinstinguishes three tenses (past, present, future) and two aspects: perfective for finished actions and imperfective for continuing actions.
- imperfective past: -ij-
- perfective past: -bua-
- imperfective present: no prefix
- perfective present: -aj'-
- imperfective future: -d'ai-
- perfective future: -iu-
There is also a participle (-mchau-) to turn a verb into something adjective-like.
Mood
The Ianh mood suffixes have not been documented yet. Except for the negation -duid. ;-)
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