Proto-Western Hiereti

Proto-Western Hiereti was a nominative-accusative, semi-agglutinative language and one of the main descendants of Proto-Hiereti. It was the ancestor of the western branch of Hiereti languages and was generally more conservative in its morphology and phonology than the other branches, for example, preserving most Proto-Hiereti vowels and its nounal and verbal morphologies.

Nounal Morphology
Proto-Western Hiereti nounal morphology differed little from its parent language, inflecting for all the same number of cases, genders and grammatical numbers. The only main difference between the two languages in terms of morphology was the introduction of an additional declension, which arose from the dissimilation of dental consonants.

Morpheme Chain
Due to the large number of inflections in Proto-Western Hiereti, their positions in relation to one another were strictly ordered by a morpheme chain, which was as follows: 1. definiteness; 2. number marker; 3. case marker 4. root; 5. case marker; 5. gender. An example of this morpheme chain would be abṷ-a-ẓa-ḣrn-at-uṱu (abṷaẓaḣrnaturu), meaning by means of the walls.

Verbal Morphology
Verbs in Proto-Hiereti conjugated for four moods (indicative, subjunctive, imperative and conditional), four tenses (past, near past, present and future), three numbers (singular, dual and plural), five persons (first-person, second-person, third-person and two honorifics) and two genders (animate and inanimate). Verbs using the same roots as nouns are distinguished from their counterparts with the addition of the postfix -iḥ.