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Generally Welshy phonology but with ejectives and affricates; penultimate stress with vowel alternations attesting to earlier ultimate stress | Generally Welshy phonology but with ejectives and affricates; penultimate stress with vowel alternations attesting to earlier ultimate stress | ||
=== Consonants === | === Consonants === | ||
* /m n/ | * /m n l r (Welsh ll) (Welsh rh)/ | ||
* /p t ts k kw/ | * /p t ts k kw/ | ||
* /ph th tsh kh kwh/ | * /ph th tsh kh kwh/ | ||
* /p' t' ts' k' kw'/ | * /p' t' ts' k' kw'/ | ||
* /f θ s s{{ret}} | * /f θ s s{{ret}} x xw h ʔ/ | ||
* /v ð z w/ | * /v ð z w/ | ||
=== Vowels === | === Vowels === | ||
/i e ɨ ə a u o/ | /i e ɨ ə a u o/ | ||
Revision as of 04:49, 28 November 2024
In Verse:Angai, Dylathian is an extremely conservative Trans-Sarnathian 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 Trans-Sarnathian branch.
Standard Dylathian is the 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
Consonants
- /m n l r (Welsh ll) (Welsh rh)/
- /p t ts k kw/
- /ph th tsh kh kwh/
- /p' t' ts' k' kw'/
- /f θ s s̠ x xw h ʔ/
- /v ð z w/
Vowels
/i e ɨ ə a u o/
Grammar
"Colloquial Welsh with classifiers"
Nouns
Most nouns have an unmarked form and a marked form that is only used for indefinite singular nouns. For the definite article, the appropriate classifier is used; the number is marked on the classifier.
Numerals
There is no isolated word for "one". When counting you use a word that was formerly "once/an occurrence" (cf. Slavic raz dva tri...). Otherwise, the singular indefinite form of the noun in question is used, when necessary emphasized with __ 'only'.
TAM auxiliaries
Inflected for person and number (inherited from Proto-Trans-Sarnathian)
Verbs
The word order is "T1 S T2 V O".