Kuma-Koban

Old Verat Verát
Spoken in:	Terek Highlands (Teregvérga)
Conworld:	Khelivega Continuity
Total speakers:	Roughly 300 Thousand
Genealogical classification:	Indo-European Indo-Caucasian Vertaic Old Verat
Basic word order:	SOV
Morphological type:	Inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Split-S
Writing system:
Created by:
S. G. McCabe	c2002 CE

History

More commonly just Verát, this was the language spoken by the southern dōras, most famously, those who's clans entered into the Great Pact at Terek. This is the langauge spoken by Undun and his compatriots, as opposed to the slightly younger and only slightly changed High or Terek Verat which appears during the First Kingdom. Genetically, Verát is an old Indo-European language, an early branching-off, indicated by some archaic and otherwise unsusual features. It shares many traits with the Indo-Iranian languages in particular, but is clearly not a member of that family.

It was spoken in the south and east, especially at Terek, presumably as far north as Kuban.

Orthography and Phonology

Also: Old Verat Phonology

The Phonology of Verat is somewhat simpler than that of Proto-Indo-European. It shows 15 phonemic consonants and 5 vowels with phonemic length contrasts. Traditionally, the consonants are divided into three main series.

	Voiceless	Voiced	Fricative	Nasal
Velar	k [kʰ]	g	kh [x]
Labial	p [pʰ]	b	v	m
Alveolar	t [tʰ]	d	s	n

As wells as r, l, j, and ş [ɕ] which constitute a fourth series of coronal continuants which do not fit into the normal pattern. For vowels, we have:

Short-	i	e	a	o	u
Long-	ī	ē	ā	ō	ū

Noun

Also: Old Verat Noun

There are eight noun cases: Nominative, Absolutive, Genetive, Dative, Instrumental, Ablative, Locative, and Vocative. This is alongside two noun classes: Animate and Neuter. There are several declension.

Verb

Also: Old Verat Verb

As an Indo-European language, Verát has a fairly complicated verb system with an ablaut.