Thensarian

Thensarian (thēnsaraquhanquhus/-milacus, Thengkha: Thengsornkhwong) is a classical Ramanuric language and one of two superstrate languages of Thengkha. 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.

Lots of reduplication, especially in verbs

Should sound whimsical or English magic spell-like

Lexicon

• Pravynus Palanchius -> Praween Balang
• Margaery (female given name) -> Mornkhairee
• Jabṛvacis = Jabberwocky
• vṛpālum = to slay
• vṛthāx = mind
• Names with syllabic r: Axṛcas, Phṛsus, Bṛxānas, Squṛnis, Bacṛnceps, Maccṛgitus, Nṛtrāniā, Ṛcquhēdā, Ṛtirry, Vṝbā
• mṛdālum (vulgar) 'to fuck'
• Manx (a name) → Theng. -mong
• Marx (a surname or surname element meaning 'expert') → Theng. -mak
  • Carlumarx (a surname) → Kornlumak
  • Graosimarx (a surname, ← "Grouchy Marx" ← Groucho Marx) → Khraosimak
  • Vṛpamarx, Vṛthacamarx
• Barthagangus (Phatthakhong) a surname
• Barthanaculus -> Phatthanakul
• Bartharavancus -> Phattharawong
• Barthavidaeus -> Phatthawithai
• Barthavanxālus -> Phatthawongsarn
• Utrēmi-phasōlā = a religious text/mantra
• ut-/ud-
• quā- 're-, over-'
• quē '2'
• quacumquasit = however
• Xanāx a unisex name
• 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')
• spūbiao = facetiously
• spūbispēllum = facetiousness (spůbis 'mirth' + pēllum)
• hūbispūbium = magic spell
• baxaphus (<- gweķsobhos): borrowing
• rhaxū 'love'
• asynsymōs 'hate'
• cambar 'room'
• Kambarys (Theng. Kamphareet) a nobility-only name, meaning 'room-ful; memorialized'
• gladys 'god'
• Durys (a name)
• Chalguxus a city
• quēdratim 'hour'
• arclys 'horse' (Lithuanian easter egg)
• Karys (a name)

Rhaxuvē/-xū hīn asynsymave/-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  /ɐ aː ɪ iː ʊ üː eː oː ae ao r̩ r̩ː/

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 uses T DH D N

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. -rys is a suffix deriving names from -r nouns, reserved for the Thensarian nobility (sometime -ry for feminine).

Jabṛvacim vaṃvṛpāx. = '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, -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'

• 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 = speech?