Palkhan

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Palkhan (ḷdāvasagoḷa) is a language spoken in Palkha in Crackfic Tricin (Pategia in Canon Tricin), an island north of Bjeheond. It's inspired by Marathi.

It's part of the Idavo-Etalocian language family and is an isolate within it.

Numbers: ada, khēcha, tubaḷa, macha, pazīma, aḷuṇa, ṭhāvata, zarita, yāta, zāḷūta

adēḷzāḷūta, khēchēḷzāḷūta,...

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")

haṇīra - musical scale

laṭ - man

tāyāt - to say

piṇḍākāśa - peanut butter

zauḷa - wheel; from *yafr-, metathesis of *yarif-

zauḷdāt - to turn

zāra - lotus (from Windermere yar "flower")

  • Kājīgaḷgaḷēra zauḷdāyatīl vā taṇaka - Sutra/Thread on the Turning of the Wheel of Euseby (Dharma)

Lexical layers

Palkhan has some Semitic and Indo-European words from early migrations to Tricin.

  • rabaka - car
  • gaḷgaḷa - wheel
  • harca - plough
  • amṭa - truth
  • dobra - good
  • dobrāṭha - goodness (suffix related to -ость)