Scorpio-Centauric languages

The Scorpio-Centauric languages are a group of about 100 distinct languages and dialects, spoken by the Scorpio-Centaurians, a hyper-sentient, transplanetary race, across the Scorpius-Centaurus OB2 association (from here on to be referred to as “Sco-Cen OB2”). Their languages, due to their geographical proximity to Earth and hospitable attitude towards the human race, including trading and cultural exchanges, have been studied relatively well by human scientists and linguists, since the first contact in the 46th century AC. Some member languages of this group have also been influenced by human languages since then, mostly in terms of vocabulary (filling concepts that lacked in their languages, such as "war" or "forest").

Its proto language, Proto-Scorpio-Centauric, emerged approximately 14 to 13 million years ago, when the Sco-Cen OB2 association was still young and its member stars were still relatively close to each other, despite having lost a strong gravitational bond. The proto language evolved on the Scorpio-Centaurians’ home planet of Aruhjakter (from "aru" (= planet) and "hjakter" (= origin, beginning)), which was located within a young open cluster in the OB2 association, and then as an advanced interplanetary travel technology was developed, it slowly began to spread to other planets nearby. Unfortunately, however, about 11 million years ago, the Scorpio-Centaurians were forced to abandon their home of Aruhjakter, due to a destructive supernova of a neighbouring star, which scorched its surface by a powerful radiation surge (such as gamma rays and UV).

Due to their different anatomy (the ability to perceive and then reproduce the exact same sound) and brain structure (long and accurate memory that remain intact for hundreds of years), the evolution of Scorpio-Centauric languages was slower than that of humans, sometimes taking tens of thousands of years for a single, simple phonetic shift, such as /k/ -> /x/.

Members and Subdivisions
Scorpio-Centauric languages include about a hundred languages and dialects, with a total number of speakers of approximately 70 billion, across multiple planets and space colonies.

By this point, the Scorpio-Centauric languages have diverged into four main branches, Scorpic, Lupitic, Centauric and Cruxian. The largest language of each branch by the number of speakers are Fargashian (Latin transcription: tagvafærgaši, 12.2 billion speakers), Eviduvan (Latin transcription: tuggueviðuve, 9.7 billion speakers), Chermashian (Latin transcription: ørejuu čærməše, 7.3 billion speakers) and Anfarmagan (Latin transcription: araw anfarmaage, 20.1 billion speakers), respectively, with Anfarmagan being the largest of all Scorpio-Centauric languages.

Scorpic languages are said to be most archaic, having retained many characteristics from the Proto-Scorpio-Centauric.

Member Languages
Anfarmagan [araw anfarmaage]

Chermashian [ørejuu čərmæše]

Eviduvan [tuggueviðuve]

Fargashian [tagvafærgaši]