Thensarian

Thensarian (thēṃsaraquhanquhus/-milacus, gen. -quhanquhasus/-milacī, Rencadian: Thengsornkhwong) is a classical Ramanuric language and one of two superstrate languages of Rencadian. It originates from Tālsim. It is inspired by Latin, Sanskrit, and Ancient Greek, and it is a parody of fantasy languages inspired by Latin and Greek, such as High Valyrian.

Make into a Latin gib ~ Greek gib ~ Sanskrit gib dialect continuum?

• Θεισαραπάμφος, Θεισαραμιλακός
• dhēṃsaragaṅghaḥ/-milakaḥ

Lots of reduplication, especially in verbs

Should sound whimsical or English magic spell-like

⟨ae ai ao au⟩ = /eː ai oː au/

Lexicon

• diṃsuṃ 'meal'
• Dylath → Dalāthium
• Ulthar → Vṛthārium
• Hlanith → Chlanithium
• Ilarnek → Ilarnēcium
• Mnar → Imnārium
• Sarnath → Sarnathium
• Celephais → Cēlēphavīsium
• Kadath → Cadathium
• vṝcaluṃ = to abandon
• Pravynus Palanchius -> Praween Balang
• Margaery (female given name) -> Mornkhairee
• vṛpāluṃ = to slay
• vṛthāx = mind
• Names with syllabic r: Axṛcas, Phṛsus, Bṛxānas, Squṛnis, Bacṛnceps, Maccṛgitus, Nṛtrāniā, Ṛcquhēdā, Ṛttirry, Vṝbā
• mṛdāluṃ (vulgar) 'to fuck'
• Manx (a name) → Rencadian -mong
• Marx (a surname or surname element meaning 'expert') → Rencadian -mak
  • Caralamarx (a surname) → Karalamak
  • Vṛpamarx, Vṛthācamarx
• Barthagangus (Phatthakhong) a surname
• Barthanaculus -> Phatthanakul
• Bartharavancus -> Phattharawong
• Barthavidaeus -> Phatthawithai
• Barthavanxālus -> Phatthawongsarn
• Utrēmi-phasōlā = a religious text/mantra
• ut-/ud-
• quā- 're-, over-'
• ysus '1'
• quē '2'
• blāna '3'
• vanthē '4'
• lythṛ '5'
• chaen '6'
• jēlan '7'
• xāman '8'
• vastaṃ '9'
• aobā '10'
• bṝdā = hundred
• quacumquasit = however
• Xanāx a unisex name
• Xanasvācā a name
• Xatrēpus a name
• Bandaeuṃ (Rencadian Phonthai) = the capital of the Thensarian empire
• haothispēlluṃ = sorcery (from haothim 'ritual' + pēllum 'fruit; output, implementation, work')
• spūbiao = facetiously
• spūbispēlluṃ = facetiousness (spůbis 'mirth' + pēllum)
• hūbispūbiu1m = fake magic spell
• baxaphus (<- gweķsobhos): borrowing
• rhaxū 'love'
• asiṃsymōs 'hate'
• cambar 'room'
• Kambarys (Rencadian Kamphareet) a nobility-only name, meaning 'room-ful; memorialized'
• gladys 'god'
• Durys (a name)
• Chalguxus a city
• quēdratiṃ 'hour'
• arclys 'horse' (Lithuanian easter egg)
• Karys (a name)

Rhaxuvē/-xū hīn asiṃsymave/-mō 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 /d t tʰ 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

a ā i y u ū ē ō ae ao ṛ ṝ ṃ /ɐ aː ɪ iː ʊ uː eː oː ae ao r̩ r̩ː (nasalization + length)/

Orthography

Thensarian uses a variant of the Brahmi script.

Brahmi breathy letters are used for ph th ch quh; qu quh written as kv ghv; x uses the kS ligature; t th d n l s uses T DH D N L S.

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 Rencadian.

Todo: research PIE ablaut

Nouns

Usually, the nominative singular case markers are -us/-is/-us/-ys masc, -ā/-y/-ū fem, -uṃ/-iṃ/-uṃ/-yṃ neuter, -r/-ō collective. -rys is a suffix deriving names from -r nouns, reserved for the Thensarian nobility (sometimes -ry is used as a feminine counterpart of -rys).

Jabṛvaciṃ vaṃvṝpāx. = 'We shall slay the Jabberwocky.'

Adjectives

-ao forms adverbs

Verbs

• Infinitive -lum: -alum, -ālum, -ylum, -ūlum, -ȳlum
• Personal endings: 1sg -r, 2sg -t, 3sg -m, 1pl.ex, -ivy, 1pl.in -x, 2pl -phas, 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'

• CalaC- reduplicant for the past tense

qualaquhanix 'we spoke'

• CanC- reduplicant for the irrealis

quanquhānix 'we shall speak; let us speak'

Derivational

• quhan-alum = to speak -> quhan<quh>us (s-stem neuter) = speech