Proto-Veyatic morphology

Morphological profile

• Root stable, moderately suffixing and not yet fully smoothed.
• Grammatical relations are carried by word order, light relic particles and some old derivational patterns.
• The language knows a solemn long form and a running short form in several high-frequency words.

Personal pronouns

Ur-Veyatic preserves two series for common pronouns: a full, weighty form of speech and a clitic everyday form.

• Reflexive: ser
• The full forms carry weight, oath, contrast or liturgical height.
• The short forms are currently being discussed and have been developed very differently in the daughter languages.

Nominal morphology

Basic numbers of the form

• Singular: basic form
• Animated or socially marked plural: -i
• Collective or factual plural: -an
• Abstract/event: -at

Examples:

• enar -> enari = people -> peoples / clans
• drun -> drunan = House -> Houses / Housing stock
• navar -> navat = give -> gift
• veyar -> veyarat = speech act / speech

Determiner

• aer = definitely / close / commonly known
• aur = distant / distant / otherworldly
• ena = undetermined

These forms are significantly more deictic than in the daughter languages; The specific expression does not just name definiteness, but rather a shared horizon.

Relational particles

• na = Affiliation, origin, possession
• ta = Target, receiver, directed relatedness
• ke = location, location, interior, area
• va = and / with

Examples:

• aer drun na nau = my house
• ena kevar ta nela = a contract for Enel
• aer nor ke verun = the Enor in the harbor

Adjectives

• Basic position: after the noun
• aer thalar draes
• ena kevar zorin
• Prefix is solemn, contrastive or poetic:
• draes aer thalar
• zeya aur veyarat

This double possibility is one of the most important starting points for the later split between Veyrathi and Veytharisch.

Verbs

Basic shape

• Many old verbs are in the lexicon form -ar.
• This form is also the simple finite real form.

Examples:

• veyar = speak
• seyar = see
• talar = walk, move
• navar = give

Grammatical particles

Examples:

• nu noi veyar = I don't speak
• nu sha talar = I will leave / I am about to leave
• nu kai veyar = I would speak

Completed storyline

• An old termination form is often formed with -an.
• It has a narrative, reminiscent or testimonial effect.

Examples:

• seyar -> seyaran
• talar -> talaran
• werar -> weraran

Non-verbal predication

• The unmarked present sentence often remains copulaless:
• aer thalar draes
• aer drun torim
• The old supporting copula isar stands for explicitly marked, legal or contrastive statements:
• aer kevar zorin isar
• aer drun noi torim isar

Sentence structure

• Chalkboard, legal and oath style prefer XOV or SOV.
• Running narrative speech allows SVX and early verb translation.
• Subordinate clauses usually have a left particle and a late verb conclusion.

This intentionally makes Ur-Veyatic older and less standardized than its daughter languages: not modern, standardized, but register-bound and steeped in tradition.