Varðinekvas/Old

So, yep, Old 'Nekvas that is. AKA Western dialect with less substrate.

Features

 * PIE roots left almost unchanged
 * retained most of the endings
 * generally satem changes:
 * most aspirated plosives become their fricative counterparts
 * most palatalized velar plosives become retroflex fricatives, aspirated palatalized velar plosives behave in the same way as their plain counterparts
 * some vowels and /VS/ (vowel-semivowel) sequences become diphthongs
 * most /VSV/ sequences become diphthongs
 * laryngeals become /ɒ/ in most cases; rarely their realization depends on a neighboring vowel.
 * no defined infinitive
 * fronting of vowels after fricatives developed from (unaspirated) palatalized plosives

Examples
*h₁ > 0 /#_ ! /#_CC (*h₁lewdʰ- > lauðos) *h₁ > 0 /V_ (*dʰéh₁tis > ðetis) *h₁ > a (*h₂enh₁mos > enams) *h₂ > 0 /#_V (*h₂ówis > ovis) *h₂ > a /#_ (*h₂nḗr > anér) *h₂ > á (*h₂ḱrós > áš(ə)r-, ášro) *h₃ > o (*h₃dónts > odont) *h₃e > o (*h₃ekʷ- > ogu) *éh₂ > á (*bʰréh₂tēr > brát, brátas) *ew > au (*bʰewdʰ- > bauð-, béðai) *o, a > e /Cʲ_ (*ǵnéw- > žnevu) *Pʷ > Pu /_C (*h₁n̥gʷnis > agunis) *Pʰ > P /#_C (*bʰrem- > brem-, brimai) *bʰ > v (*bʰerǵʰ- > verɣa, verɣ-, verx) *bʰ > b /_D (*bʰewg- > baug-, bégai) *gʰ, ǵʰ > ɣ (*mréǵʰus > breɣ-) *gʰ, ǵʰ > x /_# (*mréǵʰus > *brex > brax (n.) *dʰ > ð (*dʰugh₂tḗr > ðauga) *Pʰ > P /#_e? ! *dʰ > d /#_e (*bʰer- > ber-, birai; *dʰegʷʰ- > ðeɣ-, žiɣai) *bʰ > b /C_? (*ǵómbʰos > žembas) *w > v (*h₂ōwyóm > ovio)

Grammar
The grammar of 'nekvas is mainly fusional and marginally synthetic. (blah blah blah, TBD)