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Early Old Thean (perceived as a poetic register during the Late OTh period) | Early Old Thean (perceived as a poetic register during the Late OTh period) | ||
* | * A rhyming prose tale, The Tale of the Alchemist, committed to writing during the Late Old Thean period | ||
Late Old Thean | Late Old Thean | ||
* The Code of Lady Na¹³-Khai¹¹ (<- Tentative ModThean reading) | * The Code of Lady Na¹³-Khai¹¹ (<- Tentative ModThean reading) | ||
Revision as of 04:58, 13 December 2024
Textual witnesses
Early Old Thean (perceived as a poetic register during the Late OTh period)
- A rhyming prose tale, The Tale of the Alchemist, committed to writing during the Late Old Thean period
Late Old Thean
- The Code of Lady Na¹³-Khai¹¹ (<- Tentative ModThean reading)
Phonology
The Early Old Thean auxiliary
Word of God
The Early Old Thean clause-initial auxiliary was inflected for subject agreement, tense, mood, and independent vs. dependent clauses. In subordinate clauses, the auxiliary often cliticized to the subordinating conjunction used.
The auxiliary had a zero form for the 1st person present independent. (Cf. Welsh zero for 2sg present)
In logograms
In-universe reconstruction
Syntax
The Proto-Trans-Sarnathian word order was T1 S T2 V O. In Old Thean, T2 becomes cliticized or lost. In Early Old Thean, T1 is the only word that inflects in a sentence.
In later OTh, T1 becomes an invariable tense or discourse particle