Orcish language

Orcish is the language of the Orcs, spoken by the Orcish tribes, as well as the Goblin and Ogre populations of Brutang, although the latter two may also speak the Kobold language.

Evolution from Middle Orcish

 * The voicing distinction is replaced by an aspiration distinction, in other words...
 * The voiceless stops become aspirated  when followed by a vowel (they remain unaspirated if there is no vowel following them)
 * The voiced stops lose their voicing word-initially and word-finally, becoming . They remain voiced word-medially.
 * The voicing distinction is preserved for fricatives.
 * The high vowels develop the allophones  after the uvular sounds.
 * The short high vowels lax to
 * The diphthongs monophthongize to . The diphthongs  shift to.

Consonants

 * The coda nasal /n/ had the following allophones
 * labial [m] before /pʰ p/
 * alveolar [n] before /tʰ t s z ɽ/
 * palatal [ɲ] before /t͡ʃʰ t͡ʃ ʃ ʒ j/
 * velar [ŋ] before /kʰ k w/
 * uvular [ɴ] before /qʰ q ʀ/
 * Both [ʀ̥] and [χ] only exist as parts of the word-initial cluster /χʀ/
 * are allophones of after aspirated consonants. For example,  is pronounced.

Vowels
The language also has two diphthongs:.