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-this became a tonal phenomenon of the higher classes

• 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 habra

• spelling changes: long vowels were doubled

• gradual loss of modality inflection for 'can, may, should' and 'must'; introduction of auxiliaries habra, hatra

• identifiable noun and adjective endings: amos amin and adin respectively

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

• increased usage of personal pronouns, thus forcing a gradual loss of verb concord