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Mila is the language spoken by colonisers on the planet Kukca. It is descended from, and mutually comprehensible with the constructed language, Proto-Mila, as spoken on the home planet of Kumja. It has about 3000 speakers living in five settlements spread along the Siska River. There are slight dialectal differences between each settlement, though these too are all mutually comprehensible.

Although in the standard language the plurality of the predicate is not shown, or if necessary is shown with constructions such as ''some ...'', ''all of ...'', ''three ...'' etc., in SS, IK and CS it is possible to show the plural of the predicate (and also the subject, though this is rarer) by making the object to be adjectival and adding '''υυυ''' [ɫuɫɐ] ''person'', vvv [jijɐ] ''animal'', '''ɾɾɾ''' [titɐ] ''thing nearby'', '''nnn''' [cicɐ] ''thing in sight'' or '''ooo''' [pupɐ] ''thing out of sight''. Abstract nouns also use '''ooo'''. The stress in these constructions falls on the adjective (so the object) and not the ''plural'' noun.