Middle Orcish language

Middle Orcish was the language of the Orcish Kingdom in its days of decline, as well as shortly after its collapse. It evolved from Early Orcish.

Evolution from Early Orcish

 * back to, followed by deaffricating to
 * becomes silent - creating consonant clusters - while fronts to
 * The palatalised alveolar trill becomes a retroflex flap
 * Echo-vowels are removed when the two vowels are separated by a nasal or continuant, and the intact vowel is lengthened, e.g. -> .  coalesce into.
 * A notable exception is words with a ending, where  is a plosive. In these cases, the second vowel is deleted instead, creating word-final  clusters. These word-final clusters - namely,  - simplify to, which turns  into independent phonemes.
 * lowers to after, remains  after labial consonants , delabializes to  anywhere else
 * labializes to after the labial, backs to to  after , becomes  everywhere else
 * lowers to after
 * delabialize to
 * the alveolo-palatal became palatoalveolar

Consonants

 * The labial consonants only existed in loanwords, though at this point, many were nativized, some even used in tribal names and personal names. This period marked the gradual reintroduction of  as truly separate phonemes into Orcish.
 * The coda nasal had the following allophones
 * labial before
 * alveolar before
 * palatal before
 * velar before
 * uvular before

Vowels
The language also had four diphthongs:.