Dylathian

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 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

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-Zzeic)

Verbs

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