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 become
 * Final-syllable become . For example,  becomes
 * In multiple-syllable words, often becomes, usually in the first syllable, or the second if the first syllable has a long vowel.
 * Shift of to
 * Shift of to

Consonants

 * The voiced fricatives were postvocalic allophones of the voiced stops.

Vowels
The vowels appeared only in loanwords. Due to the similarity between and, the earlier were approximated as the latter when borrowing from Old Etrandish.