The Ancients were a race that were almost identical to modern Homo sapiens and lived tens, possibly hundreds of million years ago. The Ancients advanced technologically and mentally to the point where they could rid themselves of their physical bodies and convert their consciousness to pure energy and ascend to a higher plane of existence.

The Ancients were devided into two factions because of philosophical differences, the Alterans /ɑltɛɹən/ and the Ori /ɔːɹaɪ̯/

The Ori stayed in their original galaxy but the Alterans explore the universe and came to the Milky Way and seeded life, then they fled to another galaxy, because of a plague, and later came back, because of a war from an alien race, and saw humans just like them evolved again on Earth. Even later the Alteran and the Ori ascended and left behind their language.

Proto-Ancient was a language spoken loooooong ago and split into two branches: Proto-Indo-European and Antarctic

The Antarctic branch (called ancient) split into Alteran and Ori

Phonology

Consonants:/p,t,c,k,q,t͡s,t͡ɕ/b,d,ɟ,g,ɢ,d͡z,d͡ʑ,/f[ɸ],þ[θ],s,š[ç],x,χ,h/v[β],ð,z,ž[ʝ],ɣ,ʁ/m,n,[ɲ,ŋ,ɴ]/r,l,j,ɥ,ɰ,w/

[ɕ,ʑ] are allophones of [ç,ʝ]

Vowels: /i[ɪ],y,ɵ,ï[ɯ],u[ʊ],e,ə,o,a,ɐ/ī,ȳ,ï̄[ɯː],ū,ē,ō,ā/s̥ š̥[ɕ̩] /z̥ ž̥[ʑ̩]/

Energology

Ascended beings are beings of pure energy and therefore do not communicate with sound but rather energy. I will use electromagnetic but other types of energy can be used too.

These energy phonemes are called energemes.

Here are the phonological terms converted:

Consonants

Place of Articulation > Wavelength1

  • Bilabial > <100 fm2

  • Labiodental/Dental > 100 fm to 100 pm3

  • Alveolar/Postalveolar/Retroflex > 100 pm to 10 μm4

  • Palatal > 10 μm to 1 mm5

  • Velar > 1 mm to 1 dm6

  • Uvular/Pharyngeal > 10 dm to 1 hm7

  • Glottal >  >1 hm8

Manner of Articulation > Envelope9

  • Stop (Pulse): Hard square pulse

  • Fricative (Turbulence): Turbulent noise10

  • Trill & Tap (Flutter/Pulse): Softer pulse(s)

  • Approximant (Hum): Smooth wave

  • Lateral (Splitwave): Two split coherent channels

Voicing > Coherence11

Pulmonicity > Emission/Absorption12

Vowels

Vowels consist of 2 formants (sine waves), like in phonic language.

Supersegmentals (tone, stress, intonation) are depicted with amplitude alteration.

Morphology

The Antarctic branch kept these while P.I.E. expanded upon them.

Person: First, Second Third

Number: Singular, Plural13

Voice: Active, Mediopassive

Mood: Indicative, Imperitive14

Aspect: Past, Present, Infinitive15

Cases

Nominitive, Accusative, Ablative, Dative, Insturmental, Locative

Number: Singular, Plural, Collective

Gender: Masculine16, Feminine17

Vocabulary

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