Oge

Oge
Language family	Waruk
Era	today
Writing system	Modified Latin
Official status
Spoken in	Wänade, Connecticut
Speaker
Demonym	Ogenko
Technical information
Language code	OGE

"ungaming" in Oge

Oge ['ɔɣɛ] is a language isolate which migrated into the ŋorld from the far weast in April of 2025. Little is known about its origins, and the recent rapid migration of its speaking population unfortunately left little in terms of written documentation in Oge from prior to April of 2025. It is spoken as the primary official language in Wänade.

History

Oge's creation predates that of the original Nguhcraft server by several months, the first recorded instance of Proto-Oge (Kogwi Kmoyo /ˈkɔgʷiˈkʔ̬mɔjɔ/) being a non-IPA vocabulary list and a sticky note reading: "agglutinative?" dated May 17, 2020. It was originally created to be used as a (mostly relexed English) secret-lang with fancy grammar to provide extra security in journaling in a mono-linguistic substrate culture. Since 2020, it has shifted into a *slightly* more naturalistic artlang for personal use.

Today Oge is spoken as the dominant language in mainland Wänade. The most commonly uttered phrase in in-game-chat is łë wa, which translates into English as "gaming."

Phonology & Orthography

Consonants

	Bilabial		Dental		Alveolar		Postalveolar		Velar
	unv	v	unv	v	unv	v	unv	v	unv	v
Plosive	/p/	/b/			/t/	/d/			/k/	/g/
Nasal		/m/				/n/				/ŋ/ ⟨ń⟩
Fricative	/ɸʰ/ ⟨f⟩	/β/ ⟨b⟩	/θ/ ⟨t⟩	/ð/ ⟨d⟩	/s/	/z/	/ʃ/ ⟨c⟩	/ʒ/ ⟨j⟩	/x/ ⟨h⟩	/ɣ/ ⟨h/g⟩
Affricate		/bβʰ/ ⟨bw⟩					/tʃ/ ⟨c⟩
Approximant						/ɹ/ ⟨w⟩
Lateral Fricative			/ɬ/ ⟨ł⟩
Liquid				/l/		/j/ ⟨y⟩		/w/ ⟨u⟩

Labialized and Palatalized Consonants

Labialized and palatalized consonants only appear in onset position. Both labialized and palatalized consonants are marked with an apostrophe in text, tho historically the digraphs gu, ku, and ty saw wide use.

	Labialized	Palatalized
/k/	/kʷ/ ⟨k'⟩
/g/	/ɡʷ/ ⟨g'⟩
/t/		/tʲ/ ⟨t'⟩

Other Consonantal Quirks

[s], [ɬ], [ɹ], [j], and [w] cannot be codas.

If placed in coda position, [ɬ] becomes syllabic.

[β], [θ], and [ð] are realized as the onsets of unstressed syllables or as codas.

[tʃ] and [x] are realized in onset position and the first phoneme of a given morpheme. As codas, they become [ʃ] and [ɣ] respectively. [ɣ] can also be realized as the onset of any unstressed syllable.

[s] is used in onset position unless it is immediately followed by another consonant in the same morpheme.

Vowels

All 5 vowels can be lengthened (realized in text as umlauted vowels). Lengthening can but doesn't necessarily stress the syllable containing the lengthened vowel.

	Unrounded	Rounded
Close	/i/ ⟨y⟩	/u/ ⟨u⟩
Open-mid	/ɛ/ ⟨e⟩	/ɔ/ ⟨o⟩
Open	/a/ ⟨a⟩

Stress

Stress tends to fall on syllables in this order: syllables containing lengthened vowels and/or coda consonants, syllables containing ɔ, syllables containing a, ɛ and i, and lastly syllables containing 'ɛ which used to be ɘ' and vocalic consonants.

Morphology

Unfortunately, due to it being my first ever real conlang, very little actually exists in terms of documentation detailing the grammar and morphology of the Oge language; tho it can usually be interpreted as loosely SOV, mildly polysynthetic, and heavily pro-drop. It gets a lot done with context and pronouns alone. Proto-Oge's grammar was pretty strictly agglutinative and VSO, and modern Oge reflects that; just with freer word order for the verb tending to push it further right in the sentence.

Tense Marking

Tense is marked with a free-floating tense morpheme which is either positioned at the start or reduplicated at the end of a phrase depending explicitly on how relevant the time is to the clause. If tense has not been detailed in speech yet it tends to show up at the start of the phrase, whereas when tense has already been stated it shows up at the end. Sometimes (particularly in spoken Oge) the tense morpheme will be dropped entirely once tense has been established in conversation.

Imperativity and interrogativity are also marked with tense marking, but the interrogative tense marker can only appear at the end of the phrase, and is only reduplicated to emphasize confusion or a strong desire to understand.

	future	past	imperative	extra-imperative	interrogative
start of phrase	udu	nu	mu	bü
	/u'du/	/nu/	/mu/	/bu:/
end of phrase	udedu	nun	mumu	bübü	ro
	/u'dɛðu/	/'nun/	/'mumu/	/'bu:bu:/	/ɾɔ/

Nouns

From 2021-2023, about half of Proto-Oge's nouns were just bouba-ed and kiki-ed into existence while the other half were loaned from whatever language google said any given concept was first talked about in. However, both of those systems have since been completely abandoned in favor of artificially generating tri-consonantal and bi-consonantal roots from older Oge (and sometimes Proto-Oge) root nouns.

Class Marking

Tri-consonantal Roots

Noun class → TCR ↓	fractal	instantaneous	animate	slow-animate	hollow	extensive	fluid
	-a-ö-	-ÿ-a-a	-e-ü-	e-e-ü-	u-u-ö-	-y-ÿ-	-y-y-ä
befal > BFL	baföl (universe)	bÿfala (meteor)	befül (clock)	ebefül (rotation)	ubuföl (state of vacuum)	byfÿl (outer space)
kafüa* > KFW	kaföwa (coffee tree)	kÿfawa (instant coffee)	kefüwe (smell of coffee)	ekefüwe (coffee bean)	ukuföwu (decaffeinated / caffeine free)	kyfÿwy (caffeine high)	kyfywä (coffee beverage)
atańora* > TŃR	tańör (intersection)	tÿńara (electricity)	teńür (road)	eteńür (lifestyle)	utuńör (tunnel)	tyńÿr (direction)	tyńyrä (choice)
Associated Pronoun:	ahö	ÿhala	uh	ehel	uhulö	yhÿ	yhäl

Bi-consonantal Roots

Noun class → BCR ↓	construct	material	extensive
	a-ä-	-e-ë	-ö-o
dÿn* > DN	adän (bowl)	denë (indent/concave thing)	döno (crater/caldera)
eskä* > *SK	azäk (lumber)	zekë (wood)	söko (deforestation/clearcut area/lumberyard)
g'ajo* > GJ	agäj (plant ingredients)	gejë (plant)	göjo (greenery/vegetation)
äruh > RH	aräh (hammer/mace)	rehë (a weight)	röho (mass)
Associated Pronouns	äl	elë	yhÿ

{-*} marks root nouns which were replaced with their TCR or BCR counterparts.

Number

Oge nouns do not specify plurality, but can be marked for singularity using the -ÿ suffix.

lumber	azäk
logs	azäk
a log	azäkÿ

Demonstratives

Demonstratives can either be their own independent morphemes or suffixed onto the nouns they refer to. When independent they act as pronouns.

General Demonstratives:
proximal	distal	extra-distal	special
ha / -ga	he / -ge	sek	ta

this is a bowl, that is a pot	ha adän, he uburök
that cat way over there	hazsek

Class Demonstratives:
construct	material	extensive	fractal	instantaneous	animate	slow-animate	hollow	fluid
äl	elë	yhÿ	ahö	ÿhala	uh	ehel	uhulö	yhäl

the hammer	arähäl
that is lightning	ÿhala jÿzaja

Pronouns

Pronouns (including demonstratives and adjectives acting as pronouns) carry an intrinsic copula in Oge. For example: saying "uaye" conveys "I am," never just "I." Persistence-marked pronouns convey persistent actions, and are marked with the reflexive pronoun ua. If you wanted to say "I am a doctor," you would say "uaye ua afän"; whereas if you wanted to say "I am, right now, a doctor" you would use "uaye afän." The latter conveys that you are not always a doctor, perhaps you are pretending to be one right now. (Note that pronoun persistence does not apply to demonstratives and adverbs that are acting as pronouns.)

	SG		PL
		persistent		persistent
1st	uaye	+ ua	yo (exclusive) / am (inclusive)	+ ua
2nd	*fü	+ ua	fä	+ ua
3rd	*fü	+ ua	faz	+ ua

Note that *fü represents either 2nd or 3rd person in context.

I am well	Uaye lo
I continue to be well	Uaye ua lo
The dog is nice	Ebü ua yel

Adverbs

Because of the intrinsic copula in pronouns, adverbs describe characteristics of their pronouns. Like demonstratives, they can be used as pronouns.

The sky is light blue	Batuya omo
The light green one is over there	Omo sek
You are being funny (You are joking)	Fü mÿz

Note that you are funny is more like "You are, funnily."

Verbs

Conjugated regular verbs in Oge only mark for the object (er.. predicate? not sure) by TCR noun class marker suffixed onto the verb. If the object is ambiguous to class, the verb receives the animate ⟨'t⟩ marking. (Note that only TCR noun classes conjugate the verb, and no BCR roots have their own unique markers, instead defaulting to animate ⟨'t⟩ for constructs and materials, and extensive ⟨Ø⟩ for extensive. Also note that all noun class markers are pronounced as independent syllables, never as codas.)

	fractal ⟨'z/'ad⟩	instantaneous ⟨Ø⟩	animate ⟨'t⟩	slow-animate ⟨'b⟩	hollow ⟨'k⟩	extensive ⟨Ø⟩	fluid ⟨'o⟩
dawe	dawe'z	dawe	dawe't	dawe'b	dawe'k	dawe	dawe'o
tez	tez'ad	tez	tez't	tez'b	tez'k	tez	tez'o
yr	yr'z	yr	yr't	yr'b	yr'k	yr	yr'o

Oge Place Names

Due to Wänade’s position in FERRA, below is a list of place names with their English translations from around the ŋorld.

Location	English translation
Kuayo (K'ayo) Gulf	dolphin gulf
Län Tozo	density line, Density Loop
Mëtero	subway, metro, tube