Kuma-Koban
| Old Verat Verát | |
| Spoken in: | Terek Highlands (Teregvérga) |
| Conworld: | Khelivega Continuity |
| Total speakers: | Roughly 300 Thousand |
| Genealogical classification: | Indo-European
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| 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. For vowels, we have:
| Short- | i | e | a | o | u |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long- | ī | ē | ā | ō | ū |
Noun
Also: Old Verat Noun
Verb
Also: Old Verat Verb
