Old Aletazem

Old Aletazem was a nominative-accusative, semi-agglutinative language, descended from Proto-Western Hiereti and thus from Proto-Hiereti. It was the language of the First Ateter Kingdom, but, through interaction with Martuk, it eventually underwent radical change, evolving into Aletazem, though Old Aletazem was preserved as the language of royalty, the priesthood and in upper register.

Nounal Morphology
Old Aletazem nounal morphology differed somewhat from its parent language, with the locative and instrumental cases merging into a single case and the lose of dual number (though it was still preserved in certain expressions and in demonstratives).

Morpheme Chain
Due to the large number of inflections in Old Aletazem, their positions in relation to one another were strictly ordered by one of two morpheme chains, which were as follows: 1. definiteness; 2. number marker; 3. case marker; 4. root; 5. case marker; 6. gender; or: 1. number marker; 2. case marker; 3. root; 4. case marker; 5. gender; 6. definiteness. Example of these morpheme chains would be ab-a-z-ira-t-uf (also expressed as ab-a-zal-ira-t-uf or even ab-a-zal-ira-lat-uf) and a-z-ira-t-uf-abî, both meaning at 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.

Examples
Ralakîqetabî sansararat šezem abîkalarir kefiqatiqiḥ > The great king led his army to the river.