Sorkish [SORK]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Place & SpeakersSorkish is spoken in Sorka.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Sorkish
[zɪˈɸɑrzʊ]
welcome-1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I>2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you)
Welcome!
Sorkish language is a wide dialect continuum spoken in the Sori Desert (Sóriban natively, lit. "Sorkish Land"), stretching from the westernmost areas (Narqérriban "Tall Sands Land") to the easternmost ones (Sarúmban "Old Land"). The literary language described on this page is based on the dialect spoken in the Sorkish capital city of Seqhanzát. Historical spelling is crazier the farther you get from there (probably) (still in the works). Due to both geographical and societal isolation, Sorkish features little to no loan words and influences from other languages.
Main inspiration came from Arabic, Berber and Turkic languages, as well as Georgian.
- phonemic stress
- agglutinative with some fusional features
- split-ergative in perfective aspect
- polypersonal agreement, 6 verb classes, 8 moods (+ several "subordinating" moods, think causative mood in inuit languages) and 5 aspects
- three degrees of remoteness in past tense, two in future tense
- weird stem changes in declension, derivation and word creation in general (e.g. wiráz "friend" > wirzá "friendly")
- syllabic liquids and nasals :)
speaker, signer, etc.; I>2SSecond person singular (person)
addressee (you)
Sorkish language is a wide dialect continuum spoken in the Sori Desert (Sóriban natively, lit. "Sorkish Land"), stretching from the westernmost areas (Narqérriban "Tall Sands Land") to the easternmost ones (Sarúmban "Old Land"). The literary language described on this page is based on the dialect spoken in the Sorkish capital city of Seqhanzát. Historical spelling is crazier the farther you get from there (probably) (still in the works). Due to both geographical and societal isolation, Sorkish features little to no loan words and influences from other languages.
Main inspiration came from Arabic, Berber and Turkic languages, as well as Georgian.
Features
- phonemic stress
- agglutinative with some fusional features
- split-ergative in perfective aspect
- polypersonal agreement, 6 verb classes, 8 moods (+ several "subordinating" moods, think causative mood in inuit languages) and 5 aspects
- three degrees of remoteness in past tense, two in future tense
- weird stem changes in declension, derivation and word creation in general (e.g. wiráz "friend" > wirzá "friendly")
- syllabic liquids and nasals :)
Sample of Sorkish[view] Kélir maghár? Magháriyer bur táfban, tár bur álgban.
Mercy? Mercy is for the playground, not the battleground.[view all texts]
Mercy? Mercy is for the playground, not the battleground.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m [m̩]1 | n [n̩]2 | [ŋ]3 | [ɴ]4 | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | [c]5 | [ɟ]6 | k | g | q | [ɢ]7 | (ʔ)8 | |||
| Fricative | ɸ9 | β10 | s | z | [ç]11 | [ʝ]12 | x | ɣ | χ | ʁ | ħ | ʕ | h | [ɦ]13 |
| Affricate | [p͡ɸ] | [b͡β] | [t͡s]14 | [d͡z]15 | [k͡x]16 | [g͡ɣ]17 | [q͡χ]18 | |||||||
| Lateral approximant | l [l̩]19 | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ɰ20 | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r [r̩]21 | |||||||||||||
| Blends | k͡p | g͡b |
- allophone of /m/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- allophone of /n/
- before /e/ and /i/; slightly affricated when word-initial, allophone of /k/
- before /e/ and /i/; slightly affricated when word-initial, allophone of /g/
- allophone of /g/
- in some compounds, but usually not pronounced
- /ɸ~f/
- /β~v/
- before front vowels, allophone of /x/
- before front vowels, allophone of /ɣ/
- allophone of /h/
- /ts~tz/, on syllable boundary
- /dz~ds/, on syllable boundary
- word-initially, allophone of /k/
- word-initially, allophone of /g/
- word-initially, allophone of /q/
- allophone of /l/
- /w~ɰ/
- allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | [ɨ]1 | u | |||||||
| Near-close | [ɪ]2 | [ɪ̈]3 | [ʊ]4 | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | [ɘ]5 | [ɵ]6 | o [o̝]7 | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | [ɛ]8 | [ɜ]9 | [ɞ]10 | [ʌ]11 | [ɔ]12 | |||||
| Near-open | [æ]13 | [ɐ]14 | ||||||||
| Open | ɑ | [ɒ]15 | ||||||||
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /o/
- /æ~a/, allophone of /ɑ/
- allophone of /ɑ/
- allophone of /o/
Syllable Structure(C)V(C)(C), very rarely (C)(C)V(C)(C)
Note: V includes syllabic consonants
Note: V includes syllabic consonants
Stress informationPhonemic stress.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Sorkish. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 SorkishOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Mm/m/, [m̩] | Pp/p/ | Ff/ɸ/1 | Tt/t/ | Ss/s/ | Kk/k/, [k͡x]2, [c]3 | KH kh/x/, [ç]4 | Qq/q/, [q͡χ]5 | QH qh/χ/ | Ğğ/ʁ/ |
| Ḫḫ/ħ/ | Hh/h/, [ɦ] | Nn/n/, [ŋ], [n̩], [ɴ] | Bb/b/ | Vv/β/6 | Dd/d/ | Zz/z/ | Gg/g/, [ɢ], [g͡ɣ]7, [ɟ]8 | GH gh/ɣ/, [ʝ]9 | Ḥḥ/ʕ/ |
| Ll/l/, [l̩] | Rr/r/, [r̩] | Aa/ɑ/, [ɐ], [æ]10 | Ee/e/, [ɛ], [ɘ], [ɜ] | Ii/i/, [ɪ], [ɨ], [ɪ̈] | Yy/j/ | Uu/u/, [ʊ], [o̝] | Ww/ɰ/11 | Oo/o/, [ɞ], [ʌ], [ɔ], [ɒ], [ɵ] | ’/ə/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | |||||||||
- /ɸ~f/
- word-initially
- before /e/ and /i/; slightly affricated when word-initial
- before front vowels
- word-initially
- /β~v/
- word-initially
- before /e/ and /i/; slightly affricated when word-initial
- before front vowels
- /æ~a/
- /w~ɰ/
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