Proto-Alemar-Barejine

General Information
Proto-Alemar-Barejine, also known as True Chevin (Kevirriks) is the most recent common ancestor of Alemarese and Barejine. It was spoken in the center of the Chevin peninsula, spreading west inland, or to the east, the coasts and to the surrounding islands (displacing other languages minus Varrit).

Classification
The Alemar-Barejine continuum of languages are grouped into two branches: East and West. The family started as a dialect continuum until the establishment of unions of city-states under monarchs, which lead to the development of separate languages.

Proto-Alemar-Barejine is a direct descendant of Proto-Chevin, relating it to other Chevin languages, and more distantly to other Edalith languages.

Sound changes from Proto-Chevin
V= vowel, S= stop, C= consonant, F=front vowel, A=approximant, N=nasal, [+vcd]= voiced, [-vls]= voiceless
 * [a:, e:] > [:a, :e] / #S[+vcd]_
 * 1) S[+vcd]: > S[+vls]
 * [t, d] > [θ, ð] /_[u, w] unless N_
 * w[t, d] > [θ, ð]
 * 1) nʢ > q
 * 2) ʢ > h / _[u, w], V_V
 * 3) ʢ > q / elsewhere
 * 4) Vg > e / _ unless stressed
 * 5) ej > i / C_#
 * 6) m > n / _#
 * 7) rS > Sr
 * 8) u > 0 / C_#
 * [s, t] > 0 / [V, j, w]_#
 * 1) 0 > e / C_[A, N]#
 * 2) p > f / _[u, w]
 * 3) f > v / V_V, _F
 * 4) s > z / i_V, C[+vcd]_i, _a unless _a:, N_
 * 5) Adjacent syllables could now only differ by one height level. /i/ and /u/ lower to /e/ and /o/, respectively, after /a/, and /a/ raises to /e/ after /i/ and /u/. Long vowels did not shift, but instead a preceding syllable would shift to keep the height harmony. Diphthongs did not shift nor induce shifts.
 * 6) ng > nj
 * 7) gn > ng
 * 8) w > 0 / V_V
 * 9) wow > u:
 * 10) ow > wo
 * [j, w] > [i, u]
 * : > 0 / V_V
 * [a:, o:] > [au, ou] unless _[A, #]
 * [au, eu] > [a:, i:] / _# except in monosyllables
 * u: > iu / [l, r]_
 * 1) ai > ae
 * : C > C: unless C is h, z, S[+vcd], q, or before another consonant
 * 1) Stress shifts to the last long vowel of a word if one is present. Stress also shifts one syllable rightward in verbs when conjugated in the 2nd and 3rd person plural.
 * V: > V

Consonants
The traditional classification and symbols are shown below.

Vowels

 * Legal diphthongs are /ei/, /oi/, /ae/, /eu/, /ou/, and /au/. All other adjacent vowels are pronounced in two separate syllables.

Stress
Stress is typically on the final syllable of the root. Some roots have an earlier stress naturally. Some suffixes attract stress. Most syllables are equally timed, though stressed vowels are lengthened unless followed by a coda consonant.

Nouns

 * The Proto-Alemar-Barejine nominative descends from the Proto-Chevin accusative.
 * Vowel harmony split each Proto-Chevin class in two.
 * The 3rd declension genitive plural is -iu after /l/ and /r/.
 * Inanimate nouns cannot be vocatives.

Pronouns
Some personal pronouns retain separate nominative and accusative forms. Where the roots differ, other cases are built on the nominative, except for the 3rd person inanimates, which are formed as if the pronoun was (e)l. The 3rd person inanimate is also never used as the subject. An absence of an explicit subject when the verb is conjugated in the 3rd person is taken to mean the subject is some inanimate.

Verbs
Verbs made irregular by sound changes tended to be 'corrected' by analogy. /p/, /t/, and /d/ regularly become /f/, /þ/, and /ð/, respectively, before an /u/ in an ending.