Thensarian

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Thensarian (thēṃsaraquhanquhus/-milacus, gen. -quhanquhās/-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

  • Dylath → Dalāthium
  • Ulthar → Vṛthārium
  • Hlanith → Chlanithium
  • Ilarnek → Ilarnēcium
  • Mnar → Imnārium
  • Sarnath → Sarnathium
  • Celephais → Cēlēphahīsium
  • 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
    • Carlumarx (a surname) → Kornlumak
    • Graosimarx (a surname, ← "Grouchy Marx" ← Groucho Marx) → Khraosimak
    • 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 -s masc, -ā/-y/-ū fem, -m 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 = speech?