Thensarian

Thensarian (thensaraquhanquhus/-milacus, Thengkha: Thengsornkhwong) is a classical Ramanuric language and one of two superstrate languages of Thengkha. It is inspired by Latin, Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, and High Valyrian.

Lots of reduplication, especially in verbs

Should sound whimsical or English magic spell-like

quacumquasit = however
Xatrēpus = a name
Bandaeum (Theng. Phonthai) = the capital of the Thensarian empire
haothispēllum = sorcery (from haothim 'ritual' + pēllum 'implementation, work')
baxaphus (<- gweķsobhos): borrowing
rhaxū 'love'
asynsymōs 'hate'

Rhaxuve/-xū hīn asynsymave/-mo elir quaquhanix 'We are speaking of love and hate'

-ao for adverbs

Phonology

Consonants

qu quh v /kʷ kʷʰ w/
g c ch /g k kʰ/
d t th n /d̪ t̪ t̪ʰ n/
b p ph m /b p pʰ m/
j r rh l s h /j r r̊ l s̠ h/
x = /ks̠/

Vowels

Like Sanskrit + Valyrian: a ā i ī u ū y ȳ ē ō ae ao ṛ ṝ /ə aː i iː u uː y yː eː oː ae ao/

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

Verbs

Infinitive -lum: -alum, -ālum, -īlum, -ūlum, -ȳlum

Reduplication sandbox

(Grassmann's law operates on reduplicants.)

Inflectional

Ca- reduplicant for the progressive aspect

quhanix 'we speak'; quaquhanix 'we are speaking'

Derivational

quhan-alum = to speak -> quhan<quh>us = speech?