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'''Qazhrian''' (/kɑːʒriən/ ''KAHZH-ree-uhn''; natively: ''Qazhrem'' /ˈqaʒrem/ or ''kjë Lazhrem'' /cə ˈʟaʒrem/) is a [[Talmic]] language spoken in Qazhra (from Thensarian ''Ȝactrasē''), a [[Verse:Tricin/Etalocin|Talman]] country. It is descended from [[Thensarian]].
Talman Lakovic or isolate with mutations, inspired loosely by Welsh


==External history==
q > l soft mutation
This language was originally called Benocian and was Romance- and Ashkenazi Hebrew-inspired, and it had a strong Portuguese flavor. Recently I decided to rework it, basing the aesthetic more on Albanian and Breton.
 
==Ideas==
*Breton-ish but not too gibby. Get more palatal consonants.
*/ts, dz/ from Thensarian /θ ð/
**or > /š ž/?
**d and dz both lenite to z
*/q/ lenites intervocallically to /ʟ/
*/m/ does NOT lenite.
 
==Diachronics==
*i ī u ū e o ē ō a ā e ae ao ei eo iu oe ui > i e ou u ë o ō ē a ō ai au e ou u e
 
==Phonology==
===Consonants===
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" |
!  |Labial
!  |Alveolar
!  |Palatal
!  |Velar
!  |Uvular
!  |Glottal
|-
! colspan="2" style="" |Nasal
| '''m''' /m/
| '''n''' /n/
| '''nj''' /ɲ/
| '''ng''' /ŋ/
|
|
|-
! rowspan="2" |Plosive
! |<small>voiceless</small>
| '''p''' /p/
| '''t''' /t/, '''c''' /ts/
| '''kj''' /c/
| '''k''' /k/
| '''q''' /q/
|
|-
! |<small>voiced</small>
| '''b''' /b/
| '''d''' /d/, '''x''' /dz/
| '''gj''' /ɟ/
| '''g''' /g/
|
|
|-
! rowspan="2" style="" |Fricative
! |<small>voiceless</small>
| '''f''' /f/
| '''s''' /s/
| '''sh''' /ʃ/
| '''c'h''' /x/
| '''ħ''' /χ/
|rowspan="2" | '''h''' /h/
|-
! |<small>voiced</small>
| '''v''' /v/
| '''z''' /z/
| '''zh''' /ʒ/
| '''gh''' /ɣ/
|
|-
! colspan="2" |Liquid
|
| '''r''' /ɾ/, '''rr''' /r/
|
|
| '''l''' /ɴ̆~ʟ/
|
|-
! colspan="2" |Approximant
| '''w''' /w/
|
| '''y''' /j/
|
|
|
|}
 
'''p, f''' are found in loanwords (e.g. from Clofabic and Windermere).
 
Auslautverhärtung operates for plosives and is reflected in the orthography.
 
===Vowels===
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style=" text-align:center;"
|+ '''Vowels'''
! style="width: 90px; "|
! style="width: 90px; " |Front
! style="width: 90px; " |Central
! style="width: 90px; " |Back
|-
! style="" |Close
| '''i''' /i/
| '''u''' /y/
| '''ou''' /u/
|-
! style="" |Close-mid
| '''e''' /e/
| '''ë''' /ə/
| '''o''' /o/
|-
! style="" |Open-mid
| '''ē''' /ɛ/
|
| '''ō''' /ɔ/
|-
! style="" |Open
|
| '''a''' /a/
|
|}
 
Diphthongs: '''ai au''' /əi əu/; '''ië uë ouë''' /iə yə uə/ from loans
 
==Morphology==
===Mutations===
Qazhrian has three types of mutations: soft, nasal, and hard.
 
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| '''Radical''' || p || f || t || c || s || sj || kj || k || q || ħ || b || d || x || z || gj || g
|-
| '''Soft''' || b || f || d || x || s || sj || gj || g || l || ħ || v || zj || z || z || y || gh
|-
| '''Nasal''' || p || f || t || c || s || sj || kj || k || l || ħ || m || n || x || z || nj || ng
|-
| '''Hard''' || p || f || sj || s || c || kj || kj || c'h || ħ || ħ || p || t || c || s || kj || k
|}
 
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| '''Radical''' || m || n || nj || w || l || rr || y
|-
| '''Soft''' || v || n || nj || w || l || r || y
|-
| '''Nasal''' || m || n || nj || w || l || rr || y
|-
| '''Hard''' || m || n || nj || gw || gl || gr || gj
|}
 
Examples:
 
*The definite article ''hë'' triggers soft mutation.
*The relativizer ''re'' triggers nasal mutation.
 
===Nouns===
Qazhrian lost grammatical gender and all nominal inflections except number and construct state.
 
There is no indefinite article. The definite article is ''kjë'' (from ''φinom''), and it triggers the soft mutation:
*''tëzh'' 'a child'; ''kjë dëzh'' 'the child'
*''rronn'' 'a man'; ''kjë ronn'' 'the man'
*''kavër'' 'a woman'; ''kjë gavër'' 'the woman'
 
Construct state is usually formed with ''-ë'':
*''tëzhë kjë ront'' 'the man's child'
 
===Verbs===
There are finite verbs, but auxiliaries are also important
 
==Syntax==

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Talman Lakovic or isolate with mutations, inspired loosely by Welsh

q > l soft mutation

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