Category: Past
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The Ancestral Language
If you’re not a trained linguist, you’ll be glad to know that Ancestral’s grammar is remarkably easy to learn. If you believe, as I do, that a grammar is, in essence, nothing more than a set of patterns, and that the complexity we see in the grammar of every more recent language is due to […]
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The Ancestral Lexicon
bâ [n] a bone [v] to structure, to give form (as a bone) pé [n] a young fern [v] bé [n] a young bug zaxá [n] a banana plant [v] to fruit (as a banana plant) ká [n] the present; existence [v] to be, to exist, to live ké [n] the foreseeable future [v] will exist in the near future […]
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The Ancestral Sound
An Introduction To The Ancestral Sound At first glance, the phonology of Ancestral seems quite complicated. Indeed, I have come to believe that the sound system of its immediate predecessor (the hypothetical language I call Pre-Ancestral) was an open one whose purpose (subject only to the limitations of the human vocal tract) was to symbolize […]
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The Ancestral Phrase
The Ancestral Parts Of Speech There were no meaningful differences between the parts of speech in Ancestral. In theory, at least, every Ancestral word was a versatile verb quite capable of performing any role in any sentence. An Introduction To The Ancestral Phrase The Ancestral language distinguished between two categories of phrase: The Content Phrase […]
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The Ancestral Clause
An Introduction To The Ancestral Clause The Ancestral language distinguished between three distinct categories of clause: The Initial Mood Clause The Content Clause The Final Mood Clause An Introduction To The Ancestral Content Clause Each Ancestral content clause was predicated upon one main event and delineated with up to four distinct categories of supporting role. […]
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The Ancestral Word
An Introduction To The Ancestral Word With the exception of onomatopoeia, each Ancestral word was woven of two strands: one consonantal, one vocalic. Put simply, the consonants of an Ancestral word symbolized a kind of being, and its vowels symbolized a state of being. Put another way, the vowels of each Ancestral word expressed its […]
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The Ancestral Culture
The Ancestral language was, of course, the creation of the Ancestral culture, the soon-to-be-revealed prehistoric civilization which lies at the root of mankind’s modern family tree. Like music or dance, Ancestral was a collaborative work of art that elegantly expressed its native habitat: the seas, beaches, rivers, jungles, grasslands, deserts, and mountains of the prehistoric […]
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The Ancestral Sentence
An Introduction To The Ancestral Sentence An Ancestral sentence could contain any or all of the five categories of clause, in this order: First Clause (Mood/Evidence/Discourse) Second Clause (Content/Theme/Topic) Third Clause (Content/Rheme/Comment) Fourth Clause (Content/Meme/Takeaway) Fifth Clause (Final Mood/Evidence/Discourse) The Ancestral First Clause If present, the first clause expressed the narrator’s introductory perspective on the […]
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rowner
Etymology | Origin Middle English rouner ‘whisperer’ Old English runere ‘whisperer’
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rown
Etymology | Origin Old English run ‘rune, mystery, secret’