Dylathian

In Verse:Angai, Dylathian (bry lleqâs Dylethyzz) 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 ___ (Tibetan Buddhism clone).

PTS tilakt- -> Dylath

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
• Final stops are optionally released

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 (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 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".