Palkhan

Palkhan (ḷdāvasagoḷa) is a language spoken in Palkha in Crackfic Tricin (Pategia in Canon Tricin), an island north of Bjeheond. It's inspired by Marathi.

It's part of the Idavo-Etalocian language family and is an isolate within it.

Numbers: ada, khēcha, tubaḷa, macha, pazīma, aḷuṇa, ṭhāvata, zarita, yāta, zāḷūta

adēḷzāḷūta, khēchēḷzāḷūta,...

āṇ- - dear

āṇna - gem

aṇvēḷa - beauty

aṇtuḷāt - to love

carha - heart

īḍāt - to trust

īḍatīl - loyalty

hāḍimbara - radiance

hāḍimbarāt - to radiate

hānī - up, above

hānīṇima - God ("the one up above")

haṇīra - musical scale

laṭ - man

tāyāt - to say

piṇḍākāśa - peanut butter

zauḷa - wheel; from *yafr-, metathesis of *yarif-

zauḷdāt - to turn

zāra - lotus (from Windermere yar "flower")

• Kājīgaḷgaḷēra zauḷdāyatīl vā taṇaka - Sutra/Thread on the Turning of the Wheel of Euseby (Dharma)

Lexical layers

Palkhan has some Semitic and Indo-European (pre-proto-Slavic) words from early migrations to Tricin.

• rabaka - car
• gaḷgaḷa - wheel
• harca - plough
• amṭa - true
• dobra - good
• dobrāṭhī - goodness (suffix related to -ость)
• lyāca - thing, word (~ rzecz)
• lyācisāt - to speak
• ḷda - ice (~ льда)
• kiṇora - harp

Modern Palkhan, especially the Cualand dialect, is influenced by English and/or Hebrew depending on the region. Code-switching is very common.