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)

Morphology

The Early Old Thean auxiliary

Word of God

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