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== Textual witnesses ==
== Textual witnesses ==
Early Old Thean (perceived as a poetic register during the Late OTh period)
Early Old Thean (perceived as a poetic register during the Late OTh period)
* A rhyming prose tale, The Tale of the Alchemist, committed to writing during the Late Old Thean period
* The Tale of the Alchemist
* An Odyssey analogue (with more regular meter)
* An Odyssey analogue
Late Old Thean (basis of Literary Thean)
Late Old Thean (basis of Literary Thean)
* The Code of Lady Naa¹³-Xay¹¹ (<- Tentative ModThean reading)
* The Code of Lady Naa¹³-Xay¹¹ (<- Tentative ModThean reading)
Early Old Thean should actually use quantitative meter but the way they write it in Old Thean logographs should make them Late Old Thean speakers assume Early Old Thean poetry was rhymed prose


== Late Old Thean Phonology ==
== Late Old Thean Phonology ==