Old Shár language

Old Shár was the stage of the Shár language between 3500 BEKE and around 100 AEKE.

Syllable structure
In Old Shár, a syllable normally consisted of:
 * (Optionally) An initial consonant, or a consonant + glide cluster.
 * The velar glide could only exist after the velar consonants
 * The palatal glide could exist after any consonant
 * (Mandatory) A vowel
 * (Optionally) A final glide or a coda-consonant

Initials

 * The actual status of is unknown. It could have been an alveolar trill, alveolar approximant  or retroflex approximant  like in most current variants of Shár. Most likely, it was a trill in an early stage of the language, but became an approximant later.
 * The voiced fricative was probably much more approximant-like, as it later on merged with
 * was bilabial. It later became a labiodental.

Between Early Old Shár and Late Old Shár, various initials have changed:
 * Voiced and unaspirated voiceless stops merged, yielding one unaspirated series that is voiceless initially, voiced medially.
 * At the time, medial was still a voiceless . It gained the intervocalic voicing only after the Old Shár period has ended.
 * The postalveolar series and palatal series  merged, yielding a new shibilant affricate series
 * became
 * merged with
 * became instead
 * became

Finals
In Old Shár, every final consisted of a vowel (chart below), and optionally a glide or a coda-consonant. After the Old Shár period ended, the finals became tones, for example,  became.