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**or > /š ž/? | **or > /š ž/? |
Revision as of 20:48, 9 February 2018
Qazhrian (/kɑːʒriən/ KAHZH-ree-uhn; natively: Qazhrem /ˈqaʒrem/ or he Lazhrem /he ˈʟaʒrem/) 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 not too gibby. Get more palatal consonants.
- /ts, dz/ from Thensarian /θ ð/
- or > /š ž/?
- d and dz both lenite to z
- /q/ lenites intervocallically to /ʟ/
- /m/ does NOT lenite.
- i ī u ū e ē o ō a ā ae ao ei eo iu oe ui
- nō = I
- gwēzh = you (sg)
- tezh = child
- rond = man
- yenal = water
- gwelh [gʷec] = name
- get initial zh from mutations
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | nh /ɲ/ | ng /ŋ/ | ||||
Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/, ts /ts/ | c /c/ | 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/ | sh /ʃ/ | c'h /x/ | ħ /χ/ | h /h/ | |
voiced | v /v/ | z /z/ | zh /ʒ/ | gh /ɣ/ | ||||
Liquid | r /r/ | l /ɴ̆~ʟ/ | ||||||
Approximant | y /j/ | w /w/ |
p, f are found in loanwords (e.g. from Clofabic and Windermere).
Auslautverhärtung operates for plosives and is reflected in the orthography.
Vowels
Vietnamese/Ivris Modernis/Classical Netagin vowels?
i, ou, e, eu, o, ē, a, ō /i u e ö o ɛ a ɔ/
ae ao /əe əo/
u ia ua oua /ü ia üa ua/ from loans
Morphology
Nouns
Qazhrian lost grammatical gender and all nominal inflections except number and construct state.
Article mutation example:
- tezh 'a child'; he dezh 'the child'
- rond 'a man'; he zhond 'the man'
Construct state example:
- tezhet he zhond 'the man's child'
Verbs
There are finite verbs, but auxiliaries are also important