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Old Thean
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Textual witnesses
Early Old Thean
- An epic poem, 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 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
A T1 particle of some sort might be mandatory in Classical Thean but not in Modern Thean