Thensarian

Thensarian (thensaraquhanquhus/-milacus, Thengkha: Thengsornkhwong) is a classical Ramanuric language and one of two superstrate languages of Thengkha. It is inspired by Latin, Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, and is a parody of fantasy languages inspired by Latin and Greek.

Lots of reduplication, especially in verbs

Should sound whimsical or English magic spell-like

• quā- 're-, over-'
• quē '2'
• quacumquasit = however
• Xanasvācā = a name
• Xatrēpus = a name
• Bandaeum (Theng. Phonthai) = the capital of the Thensarian empire
• haothispēllum = sorcery (from haothim 'ritual' + pēllum 'fruit; output, implementation, work')
• spůbiao = facetiously
• spůbispēllum = facetiousness (spůbis 'mirth' + pēllum)
• hůbispůbium = magic spell
• baxaphus (<- gweķsobhos): borrowing
• rhaxū 'love'
• asynsymůs 'hate'
• Kambarys a nobility-only name, meaning 'memorialized'
• gladys 'god'

Rhaxuvē/-xū hīn asynsymave/-mů ēlir quaquhanix 'We are speaking of love and hate'

-ao for adverbs

Phonology

Consonants

• qu quh /kʷ kʷʰ/
• g c/k ch /g k kʰ/
• d t th n /d̪ t̪ t̪ʰ n/
• b p ph m /b p pʰ m/
• j r rh l v s h /j r r̊ l w s̠ h/
• x = /ks̠/

Vowels

Like Sanskrit: a ā i y u ū ē ů ae ao ṛ ṝ  /ə aː i iː u üː eː u̞ː ae ao/

Morphology

IE clone; I'm not gonna work too hard on making Thensarian grammar original, as the purpose of Thensarian is just to be a loan source for Thengkha.

Todo: research PIE ablaut

Nouns

Usually, the nominative singular case markers are -s masc, -ā/-y/-ū fem, -m neuter, -r/-ů collective

Adjectives

-ao forms adverbs

Verbs

• Infinitive -lum: -alum, -ālum, -ylum, -ūlum, -ȳlum
• Personal endings: 1sg -r, 2sg -s, 3sg -m, 1pl.ex, -ivi, 1pl.in -x, 2pl -phus, 3pl -phiam

Verb stems mainly use reduplication and Sanskrit-style ablaut to mark tense.

Reduplication sandbox

(Grassmann's law operates on reduplicants.)

Inflectional

• Ca- reduplicant for the progressive aspect

quhanix 'we speak'; quaquhanix 'we are speaking'

• CabaC- reduplicant for the perfect aspect

Derivational

• quhan-alum = to speak -> quhan<quh>us = speech?