Thensarian

Thensarian (thēṃsaraquhanquhus/-milacus, Thengkha: Thengsornkhwong) is a classical Ramanuric language and one of two superstrate languages of Thengkha. 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.

Lots of reduplication, especially in verbs

Should sound whimsical or English magic spell-like

Lexicon

vṝcalum = to abandon
Pravynus Palanchius -> Praween Balang
Margaery (female given name) -> Mornkhairee
vṛpālum = to slay
vṛthāx = mind
Names with syllabic r: Axṛcas, Phṛsus, Bṛxānas, Squṛnis, Bacṛnceps, Maccṛgitus, Nṛtrāniā, Ṛcquhēdā, Ṛtirry, Vṝbā
mṛdālum (vulgar) 'to fuck'
Manx (a name) → Theng. -mong
Marx (a surname or surname element meaning 'expert') → Theng. -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'
vastam '9'
aobā '10'
bṝdā = hundred
quacumquasit = however
Xanāx a unisex name
Xanasvācā a name
Xatrēpus a name
Bandaeum (Theng. Phonthai) = the capital of the Thensarian empire
haothispēllum = sorcery (from haothim 'ritual' + pēllum 'fruit; output, implementation, work')
spūbiao = facetiously
spūbispēllum = facetiousness (spůbis 'mirth' + pēllum)
hūbispūbium = fake magic spell
baxaphus (<- gweķsobhos): borrowing
rhaxū 'love'
asiṃsymōs 'hate'
cambar 'room'
Kambarys (Theng. Kamphareet) a nobility-only name, meaning 'room-ful; memorialized'
gladys 'god'
Durys (a name)
Chalguxus a city
quēdratim '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 /ɐ aː ɪ iː ʊ uː eː oː ae ao r̩ r̩ː/

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 Thengkha.

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).

Jabṛvacim 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, -ivi, 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?