Proto-Wargish

General information
Proto-Wargish is the language of the eastern nomads that had flooded over the Cobalt Pass.

Noun Morphology
Proto-Wargish has five declensions. The declensions divide nouns either by their stem ending or intransitive form, and thus alternate their endings accordingly. Each declension has its own special rules as four out of five feature stem alternation umlauts.

First Declension
The first declension in Proto-Wargish is a relatively common declension class. First declension nouns are nouns that end in a consonant that is isn't prevoiced, a voiceless nasal, or /ɦ/. They characteristically have an intransitive in <-a>. An example noun of the first declension is <ʋɒrɡran>, which has <ʋɒrɡa> as its intransitive.

First declension nouns undergo umlaut of /ɒ > ɵ/ whenever the suffix attached to them begins in a high vowel and ends in /ɨ/.

Second Declension
The second declension is the most common declension class of Proto-Wargish. Second declension nouns are those whose stems end in the same consonants as the first-declension nouns, but have an intransitive identical to the stem. An example second declension noun is <ɔrɜqɒn>.

Second declension nouns undergo umlaut of /ɒ > ɜ/ whenever their suffix both begins and ends in a high vowel.

Third Declension
The third declension in Proto-Wargish includes all nouns that end in /ɬ m̊ n̊ ɳ̊ ɦ/. An example noun of the third declension is <ɬum̊>.

Third declension nouns undergo umlauts of /ɒ > ɜ/ and /a > ɔ/. The first is applied when the suffix begins and ends in either front or high vowels, while the second is applied when it both begins and ends in either back or low vowels.

Fourth Declension
The fourth declension in Proto-Wargish includes nouns that that end in a consonant other than /ɬ m̊ n̊ ɳ̊/ or any prevoiced consonant and have an intransitive in <-ɔ>. An example noun of the fourth declension is , which has  as its intransitive.

Fourth declension nouns undergo umlauts of /ɒ > ɜ/ and /a > ɔ/ under the same circumstances as the beforementioned declension.

Fifth Declension
The fifth declension in Proto-Wargish is a split one. It includes words ending in either vowels or in prevoiced consonants. The first are called "vocal" nouns and the second "prevoiced" nouns. They usually share suffixes; their primary difference is in the fact that prevoiced nouns all take a thematic vowel while the vocal ones don't.