Palkhan
Palkhan (ḷdāvasagoḷa) is a conlang by Praimhín inspired by Marathi.
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
piṇdākāśa - 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)
Uḷda, Śuḷda, Bēḷda -- Palkhan goddesses of fate
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/.