Gironian (Ancient Tarelion dialect)

Gironian, the genitive form of Gironia, meaning country, cognate with Ancient Tarelion chironaia, was a dialect of Ancient Tarelion, notable for its lack of labial and dorsal fricatives and its simplified case system. These changes rendered it largely mutually-unintelligible from Ancient Tarelion, though there were many major similarities.

Consonants
Gironian was notable among Proto-Tarelion's descendants and among Ancient Tarelion dialects in that it had only two fricatives, s and th, with Proto-Tarelion aspirates merging with voiced plosives. This created cognate pairs between Gironian and Ancient Tarelion such as trébeles and trépheles (both from Proto-Tarelion, tré​phele) and blathelos and phlatelos (both from Proto-Tarelion, phlotelo).

Nounal
Gironian nouns declined for four cases, which were nominative, genitive, dative and locative. The nominative case was used to denote both the subject and the object of a verb, with sentence structure being used to differentiate the two. The genitive case was used to denote possession, while the dative and locative cases had a wide range of uses, from denoting means and time to their original uses to denote indirect objects (dative) and to denote location (locative). The ablative ending, -itos, was preserved as a means of forming adjectives from nouns. Like in Ancient Tarelion, only two of Proto-Hypnion's genders were preserved, the masculine and neuter genders, and thus nouns declined for three genders, masculine, feminine and neuter, with gender being an innate quality of every noun. In addition to this, there were two separate noun declensions, marked by their different nominative endings, -os/-es and -ia/-ei.