Old Vrnallian

General information
Old Vrnallian is the parent language of modern Vrnallian, spoken on the four islands constituting the United Insular States of Vrnallia around 400-900al at the earliest. The language is commonly believed to be an isolate, primarily because it is very heavily inflecting and has tripartite alignment.

Consonants
The glottal stop occured as an allophone of word-final /p t k/.

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

Stress
Stress landed on the second-to-final syllable. If the last syllable of a word was open, and the last two had lax vowels, then stress moved to the third-to-last syllable: tárzik 'to charge at,' ǯúkʼaly 'O Gael!' As it is regular, stress is not shown orthographically.

Phonotactics
(Consonant)-Vowel-(Consonant)-(s, z)

Cases
First (Masculine) Declension (čore = man) Second (Feminine) Declension (se ŋ u = woman) Nouns had gender of either masculine and feminine type. This consistently corresponded to the declension of the noun and was important when using both verbs and adjectives.

Possessive Enclitics

These could replace an entire genitive argument and, like pronouns, also had a neuter form. For emphasis, a genitive argument could be used in conjunction with enclitics but then the neuter form cannot be used. That was otherwise completely semantic. These followed case inflections.