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serlwch, to linguistics

has many cases. Two of them are:

• The elative case (elatiivi), denoting ‘internal location + from’; e.g. talosta ‘out of a house’.
• The illative case (illatiivi), denoting ‘internal location + to’; e.g. taloon ‘into a house’.

Now, let me understand something (and correct me if I’m wrong)… Even though they mean basically the opposite of each other, their names are pronounced the same in English (/ɪˈleɪtɪv/) 🙃

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@serlwch @linguistics @languagelovers
Elative is /ˈiːlətɪv/ in British English whereas illative is /ɪˈleɪtiv/

In American English it's /ˈelətɪv/ for elative, but illative is /'ɪlətɪv/ or /ɪˈleɪtiv/

immigrish,
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@Azmazing1 @serlwch @linguistics @languagelovers yes. This was my source for the American pronunciation I simply used standard phonemic script rather than the script used in the Merriam Webster dictionary.

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