Ook [OOK]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ook
This is a fan made conlang spoken by the Librarian of the Discworld series. Because of the traditional romanization it is sometimes considered to be primitive, whereas it is really very elaborated. Unfortunately there are not that many full sentence examples given in the books. I would appreciate every example from the original series, that you can give me.
Sample of Ook[view] Ook. Eek. Ook. Ook. Ook ook. Ook eek. Eek ook. Eek eek.
There's a banana. There's no banana. He does something to the banana. I want a banana. It's the banana, I want. It's the banana, I don't want. It's not the banana, I want. It's not the banana, I don't want.[view all texts]
There's a banana. There's no banana. He does something to the banana. I want a banana. It's the banana, I want. It's the banana, I don't want. It's not the banana, I want. It's not the banana, I don't want.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeOrang Utan
⤷ Orang Utan
⤷ Ankh-Morporkian Ook
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Ook
⤷ Orang Utan
⤷ Ankh-Morporkian Ook
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Ook[view] About Orang UtanThis is the language family of all the languages of the species of orang utan in the discworld series by STP. The unexpected uniformity of the orang utan languages stems from the fact that all specimen (except one) are found on of Bhangbhangduc or su...
Phonology
| Consonants | Velar | |
| Plosive | k | [g]1 |
| Implosive | [ɠ]2 | |
| Blends | c͡ç3 | [g͡ɣ]4 | [ɢ͡ʁ]5 | [k͡x]6 | [q͡χ]7 | ɟ͡ʝ8 |
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /k/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Polyphthongs | [u͡a]1 | [iai]2 | [uau]3 | ɪ͡a4 |
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /i/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ook. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| OokOrthography [edit] | ||
| EE ee/i/ | Kk/k/ | OO oo/u/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||
