Verse:Mwail/Irenesian languages

In Verse:Angai, Mwail/Irenesian languages (bry lleqâs Dylethyzz /prə ɬeʔaːs̠ CLF language Dylath-ADJ) is an extremely conservative Trans-Sarnathian language (branch of the Akya-Woms family including the monosyllabic tonal language Zzean) 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

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 more fortis than in English. In fact, they're so fortis that final stops are optionally 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 affection, 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". When counting you use 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".