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* An epic poem, The Tale of the Alchemist
* An epic poem, The Tale of the Alchemist
Late Old Thean
Late Old Thean
* The Code of Lady Na¹³-Khai³¹ (<- Tentative ModThean reading)
* The Code of Lady Na¹³-Khai¹¹ (<- Tentative ModThean reading)


== Morphology ==
== Morphology ==

Revision as of 04:24, 13 December 2024

Textual witnesses

Early Old Thean

  • An epic poem, The Tale of the Alchemist

Late Old Thean

  • The Code of Lady Na¹³-Khai¹¹ (<- Tentative ModThean reading)

Morphology

The Early Old Thean auxiliary

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

A T1 particle of some sort might be mandatory in Classical Thean but not in Modern Thean