Vaktrian language

Vektranamic
Ⲫⲉⲕⲧⲣⲁⲛⲁ̄ⲙⲓ vektranā́mi
6th century BC inscription
Region	Terranihil
Era	16th century BC - 2nd century AD (and until present in liturgy)
Revival	8th century AD
Language family	Indo-European Ecro-Avansertian Terranilic-Azumanakan Terranilic Vektranamic
Writing system	Vektranamic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Vektranamic (Vektranamic:Ⲫⲉⲕⲧⲣⲁⲛⲁ̄ⲙⲓ, Vektranā́mi) is a classical language of Terranihil belonging to the Terranilian-Azumanakan branch of the Ecro-Avansertian language family. It arose in south eastern Terranihil in the mid 2nd millenium BC from its predecessor, Proto-Terranilic, as the first recorded Terranilic language. It used the Vektranamic alphabet, derived from Greek. It was the language of the ancient Vektranamic Empire that existed from 1500-600 BC. It is the sacred language of X religion, the language of classical X philosophy, and of the X church.

History

Classical Vektranamic

1600-1000 BC

Middle Vektranamic

1000-400 BC

Late Vektranamic

400 BC-200 AD

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Coronal			Palatal	Velar	Glottal
			dental	alveolar	post-alveolar
Plosive	voiceless	/p/ p	/t/ t				/k/ k	/ʔ/ '
	aspirated	/pʰ/ pʰ	/tʰ/ tʰ				/kʰ/ kʰ
	voiced	/b/ b			/d/ d		/g/ g
Fricative	voiceless	/f/ f	/θ/ tᵃ	/s/ s	/ʃ/ ś		/x/ kᵃ	/h/ h
	voiced	/v/ v	/ð/ dᵃ	/z/ z	/ʒ/ ź		/ɣ/ gᵃ
Nasal		/m/ m			/n/ n
Liquid					/r/ r, /l/ l
Semivowel						/j/ y	/w/ w

Vowels

High	i ī	u ū
Mid	e ē
Low	a ā