Qazhrian

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
• rron = man
• yenal = water
• welh [gʷec] = name
• get initial zh from mutations
• që = in front of

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	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