Mestian

Vowels
Mestian features distinctive stress and a pitch accent system: short vowels can either be stressed, marked with an acute accent such as in <ú>, or unstressed (unmarked), while long vowels can have either a peaking or dipping intonation when stressed. Dipping is marked with a tilde diacritic, such as <ũ>, and peaking is marked with a circumflex, such as <û>. The dipping and peaking diacritics replace the macron of long vowels.

Nouns
Mestian has a moderately complex fusional noun system that distinguishes ten cases and three numbers. Mestian nouns are grouped on their declension patterns -- the suffixes they take -- and their accentual paradigms -- how their accent shifts when they inflect.

Hard A-Stem
Mestian hard a-stems

pírka (fish, ani)

rhýka (pebble, ina)