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 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.

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-Zzeic)

Verbs

The word order is "T1 S T2 V O".