Vuakedh

This language is primarily used by the Vargr race throughout the Vargr Extents supra-polity. It is a central language.

Description (Specifications)

Vuakedh is the language of Vargr from the Domain of Antares, and variants of it are spoken in the Antares Pact and the Julian Protectorate.

Vuakedh, like most of the Irilitok Vargr tongues, is very different from the Gvegh dialects of the Spinward Extents. It has a multitude of unique phonemes that require much training to distinguish, and a hint of the tonality found in Bilanidin (Old Vilani).

Because of this, there are two immediately obvious differences between speech and conversation in Vuakedh and in Gvegh:

• One is that Vuakedh is an incredibly compact language, with almost no word having more than two syllables, and the other is that...
• Charisma is asserted through tone rather than word structure or timing.

To a Gvegh Vargr, an Irilitok Vargr sounds more like a pseudobio robot with limited programming than a real sophont, and Irilitok jokes about the ten years it takes for a Gvegh speaker to finish a sentence are widespread.

Vuakedh uses prefixes instead of separate word particles in many cases, only occasionally repeats itself for emphasis, and creates verb and adjective structures with tonality and emphasis.

All of this leads to very short sentences with a wealth of compact meaning. It is the most efficient of all Vargr tongues, and perhaps the most compact language of any major race short of the Hiver touch-speech.

Word Formation

The Vuakedh Language is conventionally written with the vowels A, AE, AI, AU, E, EE, EI, EU, I, IE, O, OE, OU, U, UA, UE, UI, UU, UY, Y, and YE.

It also has the consonants B, BH, BHR, D, DH, DZ, F, G, GH, GHF, GHZ, H, K, KGH, KH, KN, L, LL, M, N, NG, P, R, RGH, RKH, RR, RRD, RRG, RRV, S, SHK, T, TH, THR, TS, V, VR, Y, Z, ZH, ZHD, and ZY.

Syllable Frequencies Basic:

  1-4   V
  5-18  VC
  19-22 CV
  23-36 CVC

Alternate:

  1-18  CV
  19-26 CVC

Letter Frequencies Mapping: roll 1d6 to choose an inner table (1–6). Then roll two independent d6 (row 1–6, column 1–6) to select a cell inside that inner table. Each inner table is shown as three side-by-side 6×6 grids: Initial | Vowel | Ending.

vuakedh — inner table 1 (1d6 = 1)

Row	Initial							Vowel							Ending
	1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6
1	b	b	b	b	b	bh		a	a	a	a	a	a		b	b	b	b	bh	bh
2	bh	bh	bh	bh	bh	bh		a	a	a	a	a	a		bh	bh	bh	bh	bh	bhr
3	bh	bhr	bhr	dz	dz	dz		a	a	a	a	a	a		bhr	d	d	d	d	dh
4	dz	dz	f	f	f	f		a	a	a	a	a	a		dh	f	f	f	f	f
5	f	f	f	f	g	g		a	a	a	a	a	a		f	f	f	g	g	g
6	g	g	g	g	g	g		a	a	a	a	a	a		g	g	g	g	g	g

vuakedh — inner table 2 (1d6 = 2)

Row	Initial							Vowel							Ending
	1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6
1	gh	gh	gh	gh	gh	gh		a	a	a	a	a	ae		g	g	g	g	g	g
2	gh	gh	gh	gh	gh	gh		ae	ae	ae	ae	ae	ae		g	g	g	g	g	g
3	gh	gh	gh	gh	gh	gh		ae	ae	ae	ae	ae	ae		g	g	g	g	g	g
4	gh	gh	gh	gh	gh	gh		ae	ae	ae	ae	ae	ae		g	g	g	gh	gh	gh
5	gh	gh	gh	ghf	ghf	ghz		ae	ai	ai	au	au	e		gh	gh	gh	gh	gh	gh
6	ghz	k	k	k	k	k		e	e	e	e	e	e		gh	gh	gh	gh	gh	gh

vuakedh — inner table 3 (1d6 = 3)

Row	Initial							Vowel							Ending
	1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6
1	k	k	k	k	k	k		e	e	e	e	e	e		gh	gh	gh	gh	gh	gh
2	k	k	k	k	k	k		e	e	e	e	e	e		gh	gh	gh	gh	gh	gh
3	k	k	k	kgh	kgh	kh		e	e	e	e	e	e		ghf	ghf	ghz	ghz	ghz	ghz
4	kh	kh	kh	kh	kh	kh		e	e	e	e	e	e		ghz	ghz	ghz	ghz	h	h
5	kh	kh	kh	kh	kh	kh		e	ee	ee	ei	ei	eu		h	h	h	h	h	h
6	kh	kh	kh	kn	kn	m		eu	i	i	i	i	i		k	k	k	k	k	k

vuakedh — inner table 4 (1d6 = 4)

Row	Initial							Vowel							Ending
	1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6
1	m	p	p	r	r	r		i	i	i	i	i	i		k	k	k	k	k	k
2	r	r	r	r	r	r		i	i	i	i	i	i		k	k	k	k	k	kgh
3	r	r	r	r	r	r		i	i	ie	ie	o	o		kgh	kh	kh	kh	kh	kh
4	r	rr	rr	rr	rr	rr		o	o	o	o	o	o		kh	kh	kh	kh	kh	l
5	rr	rr	rr	rrd	rrd	rrg		o	o	o	o	o	o		l	ll	ll	m	m	m
6	rrg	rrv	rrv	s	s	s		o	o	o	o	o	o		m	m	m	m	m	m

vuakedh — inner table 5 (1d6 = 5)

Row	Initial							Vowel							Ending
	1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6
1	s	s	s	s	s	s		o	o	o	o	oe	oe		m	n	n	n	n	n
2	s	s	s	s	s	s		oe	oe	ou	ou	ou	ou		n	n	n	ng	ng	r
3	s	s	s	s	s	s		ou	ou	ou	ou	ou	ou		r	r	r	r	r	r
4	s	shk	shk	t	t	t		ou	ou	ou	ou	ou	ou		r	r	r	r	r	r
5	th	th	th	th	th	thr		ou	ou	ou	ou	ou	ou		r	r	r	r	r	r
6	thr	ts	ts	ts	ts	v		ou	ou	ou	ou	ou	ou		r	r	r	r	r	r

vuakedh — inner table 6 (1d6 = 6)

Row	Initial							Vowel							Ending
	1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6		1	2	3	4	5	6
1	v	v	v	v	v	v		ou	ou	ou	u	u	u		r	r	r	rgh	rgh	rkh
2	v	v	v	v	v	v		u	u	u	u	u	u		rkh	rr	rr	rrd	rrd	rrg
3	v	v	vr	vr	vr	y		u	u	u	u	ua	ua		rrg	rrv	rrv	s	s	s
4	y	y	y	y	z	z		ua	ue	ue	ue	ue	ue		s	t	t	t	th	th
5	z	z	z	z	z	z		ui	ui	uu	uu	uu	uu		th	th	thr	y	y	y
6	zy	zh	zh	zh	zhd	zhd		uy	uy	y	y	ye	ye		y	y	y	y	zhd	zhd

Examples

Membership in the Order of Gvadakoung is indicated with the letter G, for Gratz Gvadakoung, Vuakedh for "Knight of Gvadakoung".

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This language is primarily in use in the following areas:

• Antares Sector
• Empty Quarter Sector
• Lishun Sector
• Meshan Sector

Trivia

The principal Vargr language families are:

• Aekhu (in Deneb and rimward Gvurrdon)
• Gvaeg
• Gvegh (used in the Zhodani Marches)
• Irilitok (in the Julian Protectorate)
• Logaksu (in the vicinity of Lair)
• Ovaghoun (in Provence, Windhorn, and Meshan)
• Suedzuk (in the Vargr Enclaves)
• Urzaeng (in Coreward Windhorn and Meshan)

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