Zamanic

Volga Indo-European (abbreviated VIE) is the working title of a fictional branch of the Indo-European family that is an ongoing joint project of Jörg Rhiemeier and Juho Pystynen. Volga Indo-European is part of the League of Lost Languages.

Volga Indo-European developed out of the easternmost part of the Corded Ware horizon and is most closely related to Balto-Slavic, though it also shows some affinity to its former southern neighbour, Iranian. An early stage of VIE may be the source of some Indo-European loanwords in Uralic such as *aja- 'to drive' and *porćas 'pig'. The language was later in turn influenced by Uralic and Turkic languages.

Phonology

VIE is a satem group (i.e. PIE palatovelars developed into palatals and later into sibilants) with the RUKI rule (i.e., *s was backed to *š after *r, high vowels and velars).

Morphology

The VIE languages are morphologically fusional, like the Balto-Slavic languages, with some agglutinating traits that evolved under the influence of their Uralic and Turkic neighbours.