Old Thean

Textual witnesses

Early Old Thean

• An epic poem, The Tale of the ___

Late Old Thean

• The Code of ___

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