Old Vrnallian

General information
Old Vrnallian is the parent language of modern Vrnallian, spoken on the four islands constituting the Socialist Union of Vrnallia around 400-900al at the earliest. The language is commonly believed to be an isolate although relation to the Krassian language family has been proposed.

Consonants
The glottal stop occured as an allophone of word-final /p t k/. The palatal nasal varied with a cluster [nj] and a palatalised alveolar nasal.

Vowels
The schwa occured as the reduced (unstressed) form of the lax vowels: /e  ɤ  ɨ  ä/.

Alphabet
Old Vrnallian was, like modern Vrnallian, written in the Vrnallian script, an abugida. There are some differences in letter values between the two.

Phonotactics
(P(F,A),N(A))V(N)(F)(P) where P is a plosive, F a fricative, A an approximant, N a nasal and V a vowel. When a vowel was followed by a nasal and a fricative, the vowel was nasalised.

Stress
Stress laid on the second syllable of all words except in the following conditions: In a two-syllable word, the first syllable was stressed if the second was lax; in a four-syllable word the third syllable was stressed if it was tense.