Ur-Veyatic - Overview

Purpose: Reconstructed common origin language of Veyrathi and Veythar.

##Status

Ur-Veyatic is not a modern national language or a current standard language.
It acts as an early language stage of the old Enaris coastal, river and council alliances: cultic, legal, seafaring and epic, not nation-state.
The language should sound old, credible and independent: heavier and deeper than Veyrathi, more open and resonant than Veythar.
In terms of world feeling, Ur-Veyatisch consciously stands at a distance from today's centers of power. It is ancestral speech, not official norm.

Overall profile

Sound: sonorous, archaic, slightly mineral; common sequences like ae, ey, au, th, zh, -r, -th, -n
Typology: moderately suffixing with old relic particles; Roots remain clearly visible
Sentence structure: strongly structured with information; Legal and table style favors verb late position, narrative style allows early verb
Noun phrase: basic pattern Det + Nomen + Adjektiv; Prefixed adjectives are solemn, contrastive or oath-like
Verbs: many basic forms end in -ar; old particles for prospective, irrealis and negation come before the verb
Morphological markers: abstracts on -at, animate/socially marked plurals on -i, collective plurals on -an

Veyrathi inherited from Ur-Veyatic the more open syllable guidance, the tendency towards clear stems and the copulaless normal predication.
Veytharisch inherited the denser word margins, the stronger brackets in the sentence and the more conservative preservation of old particles.
Ur-Veyatic is therefore not an average between the two daughter languages, but rather the credible older source from which both have preserved different parts.