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"Colloquial Welsh with classifiers"
"Colloquial Welsh with classifiers"
=== Nouns ===
=== Nouns ===
Most nouns have marked singulars and unmarked plurals; "human" has a suppletive plural
Most nouns have "marked singulars"; "human" has a suppletive plural


Classifiers are definite articles
Classifiers are definite articles


Marked singulars are only used for indefinite singular nouns
Marked singulars are only used for indefinite singular nouns

Revision as of 04:12, 28 November 2024

In Verse:Angai, Dylathian is an extremely conservative Zzeic language (branch of the Akya-Woms family including Zzean) with a Welsh-like grammar and aesthetic. Dylathian is spoken in the Sarnathian mountain range in the borderlands of Aem-Zmaə, which contains Mt. ___, the highest mountain in Angai. Like its neighboring relatives, Dylathian is considered vital for reconstructing the early history of the Zzeic branch.

Standard Dylathian is a liturgical language of ___ (Tibetan Buddhism clone).

Phonology

Generally Welshy phonology but with ejectives and affricates; penultimate stress with vowel alternations attesting to earlier ultimate stress

Grammar

"Colloquial Welsh with classifiers"

Nouns

Most nouns have "marked singulars"; "human" has a suppletive plural

Classifiers are definite articles

Marked singulars are only used for indefinite singular nouns