Lectogrammatic Orc is the language of modern orcs, developed alongside a distinctive script by the post-
Uprising Orcs. It was based on the Dark Speech laid down by the
Dark Lords, but underwent rapid and deliberate change before, during and after the Uprising, first to allow its use as a secret language, unknown to the Dark Lords and their loyalists, then to distance it from memories of subjugation.
Lectogrammatic orc script is written without spacing. Words are designated by a 'road', an unbroken horizontal line beneath the letters of each word. Clauses and sentences designated by a series of period marks. The road never runs under punctuation.
Lectogrammatic orc consists of the sybols used for phonemic writing and numbers. It is supplemented in use by the characters of an
Ideogrammatic script, which is used for conveying important concepts.
Phonemic Lectograms
The majority of orc script is used in the same way as other alphabets, but it is strictly phonemic, with no regular and few casual homophones or homonyms. With a few exceptions, the phonemic characters touch the road. There is no system of capital letters, and proper nouns are denoted by a 'sky', a bracket along the top of the word, mirroring the road.
| tab (stop) |
teb (pause) |
wah (inquiry) |
hoy (exclamatory) |
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| pah (p) |
beh (b) |
dok (d) |
ton (t) |
kek (k) |
fah (f) |
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| vay (v) |
sep (s) |
zed (z) |
ksi (x) |
het (h) |
loh (l) |
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| rig (r) |
jot (j) |
che (ch) |
kho (kh) |
zha (zh) |
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| ayam (ay) |
atta (ah) |
indo (ee) |
etok (eh) |
iton (y) |
ulak (oo) |
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| unat (uh) |
odon (oh) |
itsa (ih) |
iamn (eye) |
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Numeric Lectograms
| no |
ok (1) |
ve (2) |
na (3) |
hu (4) |
sa (5) |
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| ri (6) |
pe (7) |
vo (8) |
at (9) |
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Larger numbers are written as any combination of smaller numbers. A scalar notation can be used to denote multiples of ten, echoing the extending suffixes which denote the same scale in phonemic language.
| multiplier |
suffix |
| 10 |
-o (e.g. veo = 20) |
| 100 |
-or (e.g. saor = 500) |
| 1,000 |
-ora (e.g. peora = 7,000) |
| 10,000 |
-oran |
| 100,000 |
-orani |
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-oranit |
| 10,000,000 |
-oranita |
| 100,000,000 |
-oranitas |
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-oranitasi |
Orc numerals have no place value system, as a result of which, dwarf glyphs are used for academic mathematics. Similarly, any use of negative numbers is likely to be recorded in dwarf glyphs, although they will very occasionally be shown using numeric lectograms below the road.
| oko (10) |
okor (100) |
okora (1,000) |
okoran (10,000) |
okorani (100,000) |
okoranit (1 million) |
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| okoranita (10 million) |
okoranitasi (1 billion) |
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okope (17) |
okorna (103) |
okorsao-hu (154) |
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Orcs use only unit fractions, with the exception of two-thirds.
| e-ve (1/2) |
e-na (1/3) |
e-hu (1/4) |
e-sa (1/5) |
e-ri (1/6) |
e-pe (1/7) |
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| e-vo (1/8) |
e-at (1/9) |
e-oko (1/10) |
e-veohu (1/24) |
a-ve (2/3) |
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| ep (plus) |
ze (minus) |
io (multiply) |
gi (divide) |
eme (equality) |
ame (inequality) |
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