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Revision as of 08:46, 5 February 2018
Qazhrian (/kɑːʒriən/ KAHZH-ree-uhn; natively: brits Qazhrem /brits ˈqaʒrɘm/) is a Talmic language spoken in Qazhra (from Thensarian Ȝactrasē), a Talman country. It is descended from Thensarian.
External history
This language was originally called Benocian and was Romance- and Ashkenazi Hebrew-inspired, and it had a strong Portuguese flavor. Recently I decided to rework it, basing the aesthetic more on Breton.
Ideas
- Breton-ish but no grammatical mutations. If stuck between Welshy and Breton-ish err towards Breton-ish.
- /ts, dz/ from Thensarian /θ ð/
- d and dz both lenite to z
- /q/ lenites intervocallically to /ʟ/
- /m/ does NOT lenite.
- i ī u ū e ē o ó a ā ae ao ei eo iu oe ui
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | gn /ɲ/ | ng /ŋ/ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/, ts /ts/ | k /k/ | kw /kʷ/ | q /q/ | ||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/, dz /dz/ | lh /ɟ/ | g /g/ | gw /gʷ/ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | f /f/ | s /s/ | ch /ʃ/ | c'h /x/ | ħ /χ/ | h /h/ | |
| voiced | v /v/ | z /z/ | zh /ʒ/ | gh /g'h/ | ||||
| Liquid | r /r/ | l /ʟ/ | ||||||
| Approximant | y /j/ | w /w/ | ||||||
p, f are found in loanwords (e.g. from Clofabic and Windermere).
Vowels
Something that's not too Breton. No nasals or front rounded vowels in particular.
Morphology
Nouns
Qazhrian lost grammatical gender.