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

 * becomes silent, merges with
 * becomes silent when between a word-initial non-nasal consonant and a rhotic consonant. For example, the word-initial becomes  (which further becomes.
 * becomes silent between any non-rhotic and non-nasal consonant and, creating new clusters such as , , , , , , , , , , , , and
 * The last four of them become completely new phonemes:
 * The so called "echo vowels" are deleted - for example, becomes,  becomes , etc.
 * Word-final short vowels are deleted too, turning the earlier into . Word-final long vowels are shortened.
 * The palatalized alveolar trill becomes a retroflex flap
 * The word-initial cluster - which itself was caused by deletion of several vowels - becomes
 * develops into after,  everywhere else

Consonants

 * only existed in loanwords
 * The coda nasal had the following allophones
 * labial before
 * alveolar before
 * palatal before
 * velar before
 * uvular before
 * Both and  only exist as parts of the word-initial cluster, which developed from an earlier.

Vowels
The language also has four diphthongs:.