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.

About 10% of Palkhans speak Palkhan; Naeng is the most common language in Palkha and many Palkhans also speak Clofabosin owing to its being a lingua franca; there is also a sizable native Clofabosin-speaking minority.

Phonology

Vowels get backed before retroflexes

Lexicon

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

adēḷzāḷūta, khēchēḷzāḷūta,...

mhaNāt - to wait

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") /haːnɯːɳima/

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")

kōLa - house

• 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-Riphic) words from early migrations to Tricin.

• rabaka - car
• gaḷgaḷa - wheel
• brazīḷa - iron
• eḷda - tree
• bīḷda - egg
• zaḷda - child
• zauvisāt - to be located
• zaḍnāt - to know
• harca - plough
• amṭa - true
• amṭī - truth
• śiva - good
• śivāṭhī - goodness (suffix related to -aste in Riphean)
• rekha - thing, word (~ rexi in Riphean)
• rekhisāt - to speak
• ḷda - ice (~ letu in Riphean)
• kiṇora - harp

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