Middle Neressan language

Middle Neressan was the language of the Neressan Empire in its maturity. It was a full-fledged literary language, literacy was high during the time it was spoken, and is still high.

Evolution from Old Neressan

 * Short Vowel laxing: short /e o i u/ become /ɛ ɔ ɪ ʊ/
 * Final-syllable /e o a/ become /ɪ ʊ ə/. For example, /terkemeɕ/ becomes /tɛrkɛmɪɕ/
 * In multiple-syllable words, /a/ often becomes /ə/, usually in the first syllable, or the second if the first syllable has a long vowel.
 * Shift of /ɸ β xʷ ɣʷ x ɣ/ to /f v f w χ ʁ/
 * Shift of /t͡ɕ d͡ʑ ɕ d͡ʑ/ to /t͡ʃ d͡ʒ ʃ ʒ/

Consonants

 * The voiced fricatives [ð z ʒ] were postvocalic allophones of the voiced stops /d d͡z d͡ʒ/.

Vowels
The vowels /əː ʏ yː/ appeared only in loanwords. Due to the similarity between /ø øː/ and /ə əː/, the earlier were approximated as the latter when borrowing from Old Etrandish.