Ituyagul/basic morphology

The morphology of Ituyagul is polysynthetic and exclusively suffixing, with an ergative–absolutive morphosyntactic alignment. Ituyagul nouns belong to one of six classes, each with a specific prefix with which the verb or an accompanying adjective agrees. The verb agrees with all arguments.

Nouns and verbs conjugate for 6 genders, 4 persons, 37 moods, 20 aspects, and 151 cases. Like most East Asian languages, classifiers are used.

Word order
Ituyagul sentences have a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order, like most languages in the world. Word order is determined by syntactic roles and pragmatic factors. Word order is consistently right-branching.

The four parts that a sentence usually contains are topic, focus, verb and the rest; however, any of the four parts may be empty. The topic and the rest may contain any number of phrases, but the focus may contain only one phrase.

Root and stem formation
There are four classes associated with each root. It is at the level of stem that Ituyagul roots become actual words with instantiated meaning. Each stem in turn manifests itself in three separate Patterns, which in turn come in two Forms. Furthermore, this array of Pattern and Form is duplicated within a three-fold framework called Mode. Thus, each stem has twelve different vowel patternings associated with it.