Qazhrian

Qazhrian (/kɑːʒriən/ KAHZH-ree-uhn; natively: brits Qazhrem /brits ˈqaʒrɘm/) is a Talmic language spoken in Qazhra (from Thensarian Ȝactrasē), a Talman country. It is descended from Thensarian.

External history

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 Breton.

Ideas

• Breton-ish but no grammatical mutations. If stuck between Welshy and Breton-ish err towards Breton-ish.
• /ts, dz/ from Thensarian /θ ð/
  • d and dz both lenite to z
• /q/ lenites intervocallically to /ʟ/
• /m/ does NOT lenite.
• i ī u ū e ē o ó a ā ae ao ei eo iu oe ui
• yenal = water

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/	nh /ɲ/	ng /ŋ/
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/, ts /ts/		k /k/	kw /kʷ/	q /q/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/, dz /dz/	lh /ɟ/	g /g/	gw /gʷ/
Fricative	voiceless	f /f/	s /s/	ch /ʃ/	c'h /x/		ħ /χ/	h /h/
	voiced	v /v/	z /z/	zh /ʒ/	gh /g'h/
Liquid			r /r/				l /ʟ/
Approximant				y /j/		w /w/

p, f are found in loanwords (e.g. from Clofabic and Windermere).

Auslautverhärtung is reflected in the orthography.

Vowels

Something that's not too Breton. No nasals or front rounded vowels in particular.

Morphology

Nouns

Qazhrian lost grammatical gender and all nominal inflections except number.