Qazhrian

Qazhrian (/kɑːʒriən/ KAHZH-ree-uhn; natively: Qazhrem /ˈqaʒrəm/ or e Lazhrem /ə ˈʟaʒrəm/) 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. If stuck between Welshy and Breton-ish err towards Breton-ish.
• /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.
• i ī u ū e ē o ó a ā ae ao ei eo iu oe ui
• yenal = water
• tezh = child
• get initial zh from mutations

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/	ch	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/	sh /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 operates for plosives and is reflected in the orthography.

Vowels

Vietnamese/Ivris Modernis/Classical Netagin vowels?

i, ou, e, eu, o, æ, a, å /i u e ö o ɛ a ɔ/

ai au /əe əo/

u ia ua oua from loans

Morphology

Nouns

Qazhrian lost grammatical gender and all nominal inflections except number and construct state.

Construct state example:

• tezh 'a child'
• tezhet e ronn 'the man's child'

Verbs

There are finite verbs, but auxiliaries are also important