Verse:Mwail/Irenesian languages

In Verse:Angai, Mwail/Irenesian languages (bry lleqâs Dylethyzz /prə 'ɬeʔaːs̠ tə'leθəz/ CLF language Dylath-ADJ) is a highly conservative Trans-Sarnathian language with a Welsh-like grammar and aesthetic. Dylathian and its closest relatives are spoken in the Dylathian plateau and the Sarnathian mountain range in the borderlands of Aem-Zmaə, which contains Mt. ___, the highest mountain in Angai. Dylathian and its neighboring relatives are vital for reconstructing the early history of the Trans-Sarnathian branch.

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

PTS tilakt -> Dylath

PTS ʔlars -> qalarch "oneself"

Phonology

Consonants

• m n l r ll rh /m n l r ɬ r̥/
• b d dz g gw /p t ts k kʷ/
• p t tz c cw /pʰ tʰ tsʰ kʰ kʷʰ/
• pq tq tzq cq cwq /pʼ tʼ tsʼ kʼ kwʼ/
• ff th z s ch chw h q /f θ s s̠ x xʷ h ʔ/
• f dd zz w /v ð z w/

Notes

• All consonants are longer and use more airflow than in English. In fact, so much airflow is used that final stops are released unlike in the language's monosyllabic tonal relatives.

Vowels

i e u y a w o /i e ɨ ə a u o/; long î ê û ŷ â ŵ ô

Stress

Stress is consistently penultimate.

Grammar

"Colloquial Welsh with classifiers"

Nouns

As in reconstructed Proto-Trans-Sarnathian, most nouns have an unmarked form and a marked form (called the singulative for sake of convenience) that is only used for indefinite singular nouns. Like Welsh plurals, the singulative is unpredictable and is marked with a suffix, vowel changes, or both.

For the definite article, the appropriate classifier is used, except for inalienably possessed nouns; the number is marked on the classifier.

Numerals

There is no isolated word for "one". Counting uses a word that was formerly "once/an occurrence" (cf. Slavic raz dva tri...). Otherwise, the singulative 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".