Thensarian
Thensarian (thēṃsaraquhanquhus/-milacus, gen. -quhanquhasus/-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
- dāvana-visvājācajaṃ
- Hambānus a god
- diṃsuṃ 'meal'
- Dylath → Dalāthiuṃ
- Ulthar → Vṛthāriuṃ
- Hlanith → Chlanithiuṃ
- Ilarnek → Ilarnēciuṃ
- Mnar → Imnāriuṃ
- Sarnath → Sarnathiuṃ
- Celephais → Cēlēphavīsiuṃ
- Kadath → Cadathiuṃ
- 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
- Caralamarx (a surname) → Karalamak
- 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
- quacuṃquasit = 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' + pēlluṃ 'fruit; output, implementation, work')
- spūbiao = facetiously
- spūbispēlluṃ = facetiousness (spůbis 'mirth' + pēlluṃ)
- 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 -us/-is/-us/-ys masc, -ā/-y/-ū fem, -uṃ/-iṃ/-uṃ/-yṃ 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 (s-stem neuter) = speech