Ancient (Heaven's Vault)
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| Ancient | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Inkle |
| Date | 2019[1] |
| Setting | Heaven's Vault |
Ancient is an a priori constructed language from the video game Heaven's Vault, in which the player, controlling the protagonist(an archaeologist called Aliya Elasra), must decipher and learn a hieroglyphic script used by an extinct civilization known as the "Ancients".
Phonology
Orthography
The Ancient script is logographic, but the community has assigned Latin symbols to represent each glyph.
The community romanisation is as follows:
| ;}} | "}} | )}} | (}} | '}} | x}} | .}} | :}} | ?}} | ,}} |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0}} | 1}} | 2}} | 3}} | 4}} | 5}} | 6}} | 7}} | 8}} | 9}} |
| w}} | j}} | f}} | =}} | z}} | t}} | v}} | h}} | u}} | y}} |
| s}} | l}} | r}} | k}} | c}} | o}} | q}} | i | p | b |
| d | e | g | n | m | a | ||||
Consonants
Vowels
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Syntax
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Example texts
Other resources
- ^ The game was released on April 16th, 2019, but its development process is unknown.