Thensarian
Thensarian (thēnsaraquhanquhus/-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 is a parody of fantasy languages inspired by Latin and Greek.
Lots of reduplication, especially in verbs
Should sound whimsical or English magic spell-like
- ut-/ud-
- quā- 're-, over-'
- quē '2'
- quacumquasit = however
- Xanāx = a 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')
- spůbiao = facetiously
- spůbispēllum = facetiousness (spůbis 'mirth' + pēllum)
- hůbispůbium = magic spell
- baxaphus (<- gweķsobhos): borrowing
- rhaxū 'love'
- asynsymůs 'hate'
- Kambarys a nobility-only name, meaning 'memorialized'
- gladys 'god'
- Chalguxus a city
Rhaxuvē/-xū hīn asynsymave/-mů 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 /d̪ t̪ t̪ʰ 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
Like Sanskrit: a ā i y u ū ē ů ae ao ṛ ṝ /a aː i iː u üː eː u̞ː 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
Nouns
Usually, the nominative singular case markers are -s masc, -ā/-y/-ū fem, -m neuter, -r/-ů collective
Adjectives
-ao forms adverbs
Verbs
- Infinitive -lum: -alum, -ālum, -ylum, -ūlum, -ȳlum
- Personal endings: 1sg -r, 2sg -s, 3sg -m, 1pl.ex, -ivi, 1pl.in -x, 2pl -phus, 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
- CabraC- reduplicant for the irrealis
Derivational
- quhan-alum = to speak -> quhan<quh>us = speech?