Inga Onu

Phonotactics
All syllables have the structure (C)(L/A)V(C). Only the final syllable of a word may end in a consonant.

Latin Orthography
Though Inga Onu is typically written with it's own script, it can be phoneticized in the Latin alphabet, as follows:
 * 1) Letters "a" and "e" make the /a/ and /e/ sounds, respectively, only when stressed. A vowel is stressed when it is the second-to-last syllable in the word, or when marked by an accent.
 * 2) The /ʃ/, /ʒ/ and /t͡ʃ/ sounds are dialectical variants, found primarily in Vita Ngasa.

Verb Conjugation
All regular verbs end in -i in the infinitive forms. To conjugate, add the following suffixes to the infinitive.

Verb Tenses
Inga Onu has only three distinct verb tenses: past, future, and future conditional. To represent these tenses, the following words are placed at the beginning of a clause: vo (past), wan (future), and set (conditional).

Ex: Vo ja roru ozi. - I did (something). ''Wan ja roru ozi. ''- I will do (something). ''Set ja roru ozi. - ''I might do (something).

The Hobbit (first paragraph)
Note: the words "hobbit" and "worm" have no translation in Inga Onu, so instead, the English words have been adapted to fit Inga Onu grammar conventions."Hobbit tsé agarufetsu vo havasis. Vo tsu agaru-goga, koha, danga, kiha tsé wormé, tsu agaru-rakosa, ofu, tsé tsuro néngitsi a nékangi vis: vo agaru-ne-hobbit, séda isuka, vis."When translated back to English, this text becomes: "A hobbit lived in a cave. (It) wasn't a wet, dirty, gross hole