User:Ceige/Ancient

Inspirations

The languages serving as inspiration are as follows:

• Hurrian (Hurro-Urartian, as spoken by the Khurrites and Mitanni circa 2300–1000 BC - now Armenians)
• Urartian (Hurro-Urartian, spoken later by the peoples of Urartu around Lake Van circa 900-500 BC - now Armenians)
• Hattic (Language isolate, as spoken by the Hatti around 3000-1500 BC?)
• Elamite (Language isolate, as spoken by the Elamites and Persians circa 2800–300 BC)
• Sumerian (Language isolate, as spoken by the Sumerians circa 3000-1800 BC and used as a classical language until 100 AD)

(Essentially, those isolate languages from the fertile Crescent area during the Bronze Age)

Some examples of the kind of geography those speakers might be familiar with (note that Mesopotamia has been exposed to environmental disaster thanks to continual farming and deliberate destruction by Mongol armies): coming soon

Some later artistic depictions from multiple eras depicting the culture of the relevant peoples and their successors: coming soon

Phonology

Comparing phonologies

Hurrian

Consonants	Labial	Dental	Dorsal
Plosive	p	t	k
Affricate		ts
Fricative	f	s	x
Sonorants	m w	n l	y

Urartian

Consonants	Labial	Dental	Dorsal	Guttural
Plosive	p b	t d ṭ	k g q	ʔ
Fricative		s z ṣ	š	h
Sonorants	m w	n l r	y