Orcish

The modern language of the Orcs is rooted in the dark tongue, but by deliberate effort in the early years after the Uprising was transformed into something quite distinct. Some of these changes were more than merely aesthetic. The word 'orc' originally came from the dark tongue word oruk, meaning worshipper, or one who submits to divinity. In the modern language, the term for orc is instead 'arak', meaning those who listen, refering to the voices of the ancestors and the oral history of the species.
Modern orc is written using two related scripts, the phonetic Lectogrammatic Orc and the more symbolic Ideogrammatic Orc.

Lectographic Lexicon

Word	Meaning		Word	Meaning
ak	metal		karu	messenger, herald
azhak	iron, lit. captain of metals		olak	bronze, lit. speaker of metals
berizakh	civilian, lit. farmer		rok	daughter/daughter of
dakarak	human, lit. person of the gods		ruk	son/son of
gai	for, of, towards, dedicated to		tralshaik	rainbow, lit. sky bow
gazht	kill		ul	in, part of, contained by
gazhta	killer		ulakhto	tent, lit. part of a camp
ix	magic		ulkhav	house, lit. part of a town/city