Old Dalcurian

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The onset of what is now termed Old Dalcurian saw a greater divide between that of Thaduracian and Proto-Dalcurian. The main introductions were:

• vowel shift and introduction of long vowels

• palatialisation

• lenition-'th'>'t'

• introduction of new verb tenses and endings: identifiable preterite with telecity prefix ga (which later came to denote the simple past), perfective present with haabra

• spelling changes: long vowels were doubled

• gradual loss of modality inflection and introduction of auxiliaries

• identifiable noun and adjective endings: amos and adin respectively

• gradual loss of preposition inflection into stand alone position. This also induced prepositional word order