Constructing Or'zet

A language is the soul of it's people

That's how Holly Lisle begins with conlanging, or constructing languages. The orcs of Shadowrun are known as homo sapiens robustus or if you really want to use latin -- homo sapiens horridus. Orcs are powerful, with a mixture of human, porcine, and simian traits.

In Earthdawn, they were probably a warrior culture. Although in actuality, the orcs are/were probably the awakened genes from another species of homo. So, the soul of the orcs (which the spelling ork is orksome when it comes to autocorrect.)  In Earthdawn, Or'zat was a trading language that was influenced by Sperethiel, but it became Or'zet so that non-orcs can prounce it correctly.

So, lets get started.

Phonology
World: Shadowrun/Earthdawn  |  Language: Or'zet  | Era: Modern Era | Page A2

Dipthongs
Originally, in Or'zat, there was no dipthongs. As the trading expanded with those who are not orcs, the langauge began to borrow from Sperethiel and from other homo sapiens tongues words and sounds. These are dipthongs, sounds that combine two vowel sounds.

Consonate Blends
Consonate blends are also borrowed from human languages and Sperethiel.

Or'zet Codex and Lexicon
The purpose of the Lexicon is to provide this version of Or'zet as the model for Orcish everywhere, beating out World of Warcraft Orcish and Tolkien's Black Speech as models for orc speech. Thus everyone should be free to expand the phrase book and add words as necessary according to the rules of this version of Or'zet. The goal is to provide a translation from English to Orcish this phrase:

All metahuman beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Basic constructions
Or'zet uses words made with two or three letters as the base, joined by a glottal stop (') to form some words. While others are formed without a glottal stop. The glottal stop can also mean the word "of" in long sentences.

Naming: -ar, -ash, -or, -ag, -og, -ak, -ok, -ork, -il are all suffixes that are male genitive. -ash is from human languages, while -il is from Sperethiel.

-a, -at, -ka, -na, -an, -i are all suffixes that are feminine genitive. Generally, the glottal stop (') is used in the middle of names that contain two syllables and often appear in female names.

ahthekd
thejkka

the

thekalgh

thkjhklt

ahtaltkt;

ahtje'alh

thaktrh

thakthr

thakjtle

thakt;r

thakt

tjkeal;t More Linking
 * Or'zet Adverbs and Adjectives