Old Thean
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Textual witnesses
Early Old Thean (perceived as a poetic register during the Late OTh period)
- 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 subordinate clauses, the auxiliary often cliticized to the subordinating conjunction used.
(I gotta have weird stuff like 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