Vodholk [VOK]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersSpoken in: OimiaOfficial AchiyitqanaRegional
Species
Human/humanoid
About Vodholk
Vodholk, also called Futhorcish, is the largest language spoken by the Futhorc or Vodholk, a race of "polar orcs" in the cold north of Mygith (or, alternatively, Miraria on CWSP). As the Vodholk have a particularly high rate of congenital deafness (approx. 17% of the population), as well as frequent age-related hearing loss, their language has evolved both oral-auditory (spoken) and manual-visual (signed) channels. Spoken Vodholk (SV) features few phonemes, most of which are visually distinctive; many (although not all) of these can also map to handshapes used in Manual Vodholk (MV).
A relatively high incidence of age-related vision loss has also led to the development of a third channel, the manual-tactile, which involves manipulating the interlocutor's arm(s) to create Tactile Vodholk, TV, an altered version of MV.
Note that the "high tone" vowels below really only show stress; Vodholk has no tone system.
A relatively high incidence of age-related vision loss has also led to the development of a third channel, the manual-tactile, which involves manipulating the interlocutor's arm(s) to create Tactile Vodholk, TV, an altered version of MV.
Note that the "high tone" vowels below really only show stress; Vodholk has no tone system.
Sample of Vodholk[view] Falásk sospakotsal uaspeo pesétat.
In the shadow lurks a colourless creature.[view all texts]
In the shadow lurks a colourless creature.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeHemminorak
⤷ Proto-Hemminorak
⤷ Ibetarak
⤷ Reduction Vodholk
⤷ Vodholk
⤷ Proto-Hemminorak
⤷ Ibetarak
⤷ Reduction Vodholk
⤷ Vodholk
[view] About HemminorakA small family of distantly related languages spoken by various Vetirak peoples. Due to high incidence of congenital deafness in the population, most languages have a manual mode as well as oral. Note that most names are currently placeholders.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Other | ||||||||
Nasal | [m]1 | [n]2 | [ŋ]3 | |||||||||||||
Plosive | p | [b]4 | k | [g]5 | ||||||||||||
Fricative | f | [v]6 | θ | [ð]7 | s | [z]8 | [ɣ]9 | |||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | [ɹ]10 | [j]11 | [w]12 | [ɥ]13 | ||||||||||||
Trill | [r]14 |
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /θ/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /ɑ/
- allophone of /l/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /ʉ/
- allophone of /l/
Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
Close | i | ʉ | [u]1 | |||
Close-mid | o ó | |||||
Mid | e̞ é̞ | |||||
Open | ɑ ɑ́ |
- allophone of /ʉ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Vodholk. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
VodholkOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Aa/ɑ/, [ɣ] | Ee/e̞/ | Ff/f/, [v] | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/, [ŋ], [g] | Ll/l/, [ɹ], [r] | Oo/o/, [u] | Pp/p/, [m], [b] | Ss/s/, [z], [n] | Tt/θ/, [ð] | Uu/ʉ/, [u], [ɥ] |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
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