Dylathian
In Verse:Angai, Dylathian (ry lleqâs Dylethyzz) is an extremely conservative Trans-Sarnathian language (branch of the Akya-Woms family including 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. 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 ll rh /m n l r (Welsh ll) (Welsh rh)/
- 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 /p' t' ts' k' kw'/
- ff th z s ch chw h q /f θ s s̠ x xw h ʔ/
- f dd zz w /v ð z w/
- ff th ch chw ll rh are weakly glottalized
Vowels
i e u y a w o /i e ɨ ə a u o/; long î ê û ŷ â ŵ ô
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".