Dylathian

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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 relex

Nouns

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