Old Iḥaṱa

Old Iḥaṱa, from Proto-Western Hiereti hlet, in turn from Proto-Hiereti hlet, both meaning language, and thus related to Old Aletazem alet, was one of the Hiereti languages, specifically of the Western branch. Being the common ancestor of Iḥaṱa and Ḥeba, Old Iḥaṱa formed the head of its own sub-family of languages, remarkable for their relatively analytic morphological alignment compared to their agglutinative or fusional relatives and ancestors.

Nounal Morphology
Old Iḥaṱa nounal morphology differed massively from its parent language, losing the distinction between dual and plural and retaining only three cases. The accusative, locative and instrumental cases merged, forming an oblique case, and the genitive and dative cases merged. There was also a regularisation of noun classes, returning to the original Proto-Hiereti state of having only a single declension of nouns.

Verbal Morphology
Verbs in Proto-Hiereti conjugated for four moods (indicative, subjunctive, imperative and conditional), three tenses (past, present and future), two numbers (singular and plural), three persons (first-person, second-person, third-person) 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.