Proto-Bakarh

Setting and Information
Proto-Bakarh is reconstructed a fully polysynthetic language in the narrowest sense: it featured both noun incorporation and polypersonality; it supposedly was a primarily fusional, secondarily agglutinating language.

Phonotactics
The phonotactics of PB have been reconstructed to approximately this format:

Here, the one-letter tokens represent the following:
 * N - any nasal
 * S - any obstruent
 * C - any consonant
 * V - any vowel
 * F - any fricative or /ɦ/

Basics
Proto-Bakarh was a verb-initial language in which modifiers followed the modified and heads often preceed dependents.

Terminology
Several lexical categories are found in Proto-Bakarh. They are:
 * Nouns - any lexical item that can take a case and become an argument.
 * Verbs - any lexical item that conveys an action and can (but isn't obligated to) take an argument.
 * Modifiers - any lexical item that modifies another lexical item.
 * Particles - any lexical item that serves a role in the regulation of sentences and expresses relations between phrases.

There are several items which don't fit into any of the categories above, and as such are sorted as Uncategorised. Most of the uncategorised items can fit in into some or all of the categories according to their function at that moment, but a few have unique functions.

Morphology
In essence, Proto-Bakarh morphology is divided into two large categories: synthetic morphology and analytical morphology. Synthetic morphology refers to direct changes to the words themselves, while analytical morphology to the various associated functional morphemes that are not phonologically bound to the verbs.

Often these two morphologies mix and the results and the processes themselves are reflected differently in various descendants.

Synthetic Morphology
In essence, synthetic morphology had already begun simplifying by the Proto-Bakarh period. Almost all of it is preserved, but certain aspects of it, not reflected in any daughter language, show up only in foreign loans of the period. The language's synthetic morphology is divided according to the two major word classes: verb morphology and noun morphology.

Noun Morphology
The Proto-Bakarh noun is made up of the following components:

The abbreviations above mean the following:
 * - a prefix attached to the core of the noun
 * - the basic form of the noun, not simplifiable further
 * - a suffix (often derivational in nature) attached to to form the core
 * - the declension of the noun
 * - an optional clitic added to the noun to form a noun complex.