Classical Lesa

Classical Lesa is a northern Rai language. It is spoken on the Üstine Peninsula, and has had contact with the Bresano and Mulesuax peoples through trade.

Phonology
/θ ð x ɣ j/ is spelled. /j/ only occurs before /a/ and /ɔ/. /ʉ ɛ ə ɔ/ is spelled <ü e ë o>. There are three long vowels: /i: u: a:/, spelled <ī ū ā>. There is one dipthong, /au/ (which can be long), which has evolved through l-vocalization. Stress is always on the last syllable. Syllables follow the pattern (C)(r)V(r, n, s), very similar to those of Proto-Rai.

Grammar
Classical Lesa has retained five of the original seven cases: Nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and locative. It has four noun declensions: nouns in -a (most common) and nouns in -e and -o (both quite common) and nouns ending in cononants (rare). The morphological topic of its ancestor still exists, but its meaning has changed: the inflections now express definiteness in all cases except for the nominative topic, which still truly is a topic.

Sample wordlist
Chāuda (n) - sun

Le (n) - people, tribe

Nana (n) - mother

Nudho (n) - sand, ground

Onudho (n) - Onudho, one of the main godesses, the Earth Mother.

Sana (n) - Losna's planet