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Revision as of 21:48, 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 and Albanian.
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
- wēr = you (sg)
- tezh = child
- rrond = man
- yenal = water
- welh [gʷec] = name
- get initial zh from mutations
- që = in front of
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | nh /ɲ/ | ng /ŋ/ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/, c /ts/ | ch /c/ | k /k/ | q /q/ | ||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/, x /dz/ | lh /ɟ/ | g /g/ | ||||
| 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 /ɾ/ rr /r/ |
l /ɴ̆~ʟ/ | ||||||
| Approximant | w /w/ | y /j/ | ||||||
p, f are found in loanwords (e.g. from Clofabic and Windermere).
Auslautverhärtung operates for plosives and is reflected in the orthography.
Vowels
Ancient Greek + Albanian vowels.
i, u, ou, e, ë, o, ē, a, ō /i y u e ə o ɛ a ɔ/
ai au /əe əo/
ië uë ouë /iə yə uə/ 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'
- rrond 'a man'; he rond 'the man'
Construct state example:
- tezhet he rond 'the man's child'
Verbs
There are finite verbs, but auxiliaries are also important