Bäladiri is a Westerlander language of the central lowlands, part of the northern branch of Assaric languages. It is part of the lowlands Sprachbund. It features prominent consonant gradation and vowel shortening rules. It has a complex phoneme inventory, with contrasting vowel and consonant length. Its phonotactics are fairly simple: syllables with simple onsets and codas are the most abundant category, though sequences like <-ghðr-> do appear as a result of vowel shortening. The direct ancestor of Bäladiri is what I'm going to call pre-Bäladiri, an agglutinative language with fixed word-initial stress. That stage of the language is from before entry into the Sprachbund.