#sorkish conlang

[kelasian]

trying out fancy sorkish writing (zrzvúban "teahouse")

[krakrac]

quick shitty study feat. random sorkish translation

Tímghay árdeğenfad ët-kógab ázar. "The sun ate the darkness of the night."

[kelasian]

get ready for stupid shitposting in conlangs

[kelasian]

evolved the shitposting a little (joking about a nuanced concultural topic)

the joke is that eastern sorkans are literally just vibing with their neighbouring nation of the chytari (which are basically the only ethnic group sorkans downright welcome on their soil. the eastern ones anyway) while western sorkans strictly follow the sorkish law and they are ready to kill anyone they deem a traitor (someone who broke the law) – so in their eyes, the easterners who interact with the chytari are traitors as the westerners strongly oppose foreigners stepping foot onto the sorkish soil (this xenophobia has roots in history as the sorkish lands were almost conquered by like four or five different nations in the last thousand-ish years, with the current occupiers being the lynirosans).

text left to right, top to bottom:

fávir! – general greeting in sorkish

zatau! – general greeting/goodbye in chytari (in the lísic script)

wirár :) – "friends :)" in sorkish

Fúraresfad fághaz bákat'urvnaz. Qághdat aghrísḥi. Zerfúrarsaḥabtan zíghkeḫ. Soznáriyaḥ ahnár. – I've just killed my 56th non-Sorkan. Their blood powers me. I won't stop killing them as long as I'm alive. Easterners are traitors.

[kelasian]

Hihi! Ive been going down a whole rabbit hole with your sorkish conlang. Ive browsed your conworkshop and neocities but havent been able to find a solid explanation/breakdown of the script? Ive picked up a few patterns but was hoping you could explain or post a key for the script? Thanks!

hi! yeah well i'm purposefully avoiding posting keys to my conscripts because i tend to change them a lot even after "finishing" them and i wouldnt want to constantly update the information i post online lmao

but honestly the script might be in a stage where it is safe to post the key so here it is (im currently only thinking about changing the glyph for /x/ but who knows if i will actually do something about it)

i didnt explain how the consonants are connected except /n/ but the secret to this is you just do it. somehow. as long as it looks good it's fine

(though i forgot about /q/ which has its quirks when it comes to connecting but i can explain it in another post. also forgot to mention that the extra high glyph doesn't take vowel diacritics but i suppose that's obvious)

[kelasian]

poorly drawn sorkish kinship! basically everyone is your sibling if you squint enough

in all seriousness: sorkans basically have two kinship systems used simultaneously, the one above being the base one. it is only used in one's clan and the basic rule is that anyone significantly older than you is your parent, your peers are your siblings and anyone significantly younger than you is your child.

now outside your own clan, you use the second, complex system. there are no special words, every term is derived from the three terms (and their gendered counterparts) described above + spouse, so here are some examples:

paternal uncle: 't-vagár álam "father's brother"

maternal uncle: 't-vagár ayát "mother's brother"

paternal grandmother: 't-ayát álam "father's mother"

maternal grandmother: 't-ayát ayát "mother's mother"

paternal male cousin: at-yér 't-vagár álam "father's brother's son"

paternal female cousin: at-káy 't-vagár álam "father's brother's daughter"

of course the second system is also marginally used inside your clan to describe the exact relations and to teach children how to refer to their clan's members outside of the clan. it is important to know it since many people would consider you and your clan uneducated if you messed up talking about your paternal grandmother's niece who married off into the raf'zághtan clan 15 years ago

[kelasian]

ok new fave thing. linguistic terms in conlangs. consonant is bonesound and vowel is bloodsound in sorkish because i have to drag their two gods into everything that comes in pairs. also because bone is the foundation and blood is what brings it to life. is this anything

[kelasian]

wahoo a little about sorkish! might add more about grammar in the future perchance

[krakrac]

ok proper conlang showcase go

Ḥanár tónuq kóghrem éhri ḥa tawirázi Sorúq.

[ʕɐˈnɑr ˈtonɵq ˈk͡xoɣrɛm ˈœɦrɪ͜ ʕæ tæɰɪˈrɑzɪ sɞˈro̝q]

ḥanár tón-uq kógh-r-em éhr-i ḥa tawiráz-i Sor-úq

death.NOM only-GEN divide-3S>2P 2S-ACC and enemy-ACC Sorkish-GEN

"Only death divides you and [your] Sorkish enemy."

[kelasian]

siyélistal

lúya ez zórn lúya ez zórn

ḥa pamraḥór ez ḥiwádri ez ḥiwádri

ḥa qérri ez vághanri

ḥa zátazsum ez ḥúvaz

so there is this silly song about a fish and a crayfish dancing together (tancovala ryba s rakom) that got popular on tiktok and that i cant get out of my head so i adapted it for sorkish because why not. i dont have the slightest idea where this song is from but since it sounds like some folk song or poem, i incorporated common stuff from everyday life in sorka

literal translation:

danced

a fish with a lobster, a fish with a lobster

and a date palm with reeds, with reeds

and sands with winds

and this sedentary with a nomad

edit: accidentally wrote "siyélistan" instead of "siyélistal" in the script. which is funny because siyélistan means "it doesn't dance" which is the exact opposite of what's happening

[kelasian]

random sorkish scribbles because im kinda bored

[kelasian]

gonna start typing pˊ instead of :) and nobody is gonna understand what the fuck im doing (p with a stress marker in the sorkish script looks like a smiley face)

[kelasian]

they are doing this to yrsk in sorka. bornáqparab

[kelasian]

worked on prepositions today and thanks to that sorkish now has over 800 words

[kelasian]

sorkish teahouse in minecraft? more likely than you think

zrzvúban – teahouse zifárdru – we welcome you (sg) (plural was too long) ezmár – on the left

[kelasian]

múqr ran ran tertŕznev:( kézug ḫánitan