Oge
Oge 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.
Oge gets a lot done with context, pronouns and topic marking 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.
Adjectives & Adverbs
All adjectives can be pronouns, but only most adjectives can be treated as non-conjugating verbs.
Adverbs are basically auxiliary verbs.
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.
| Noun class → TCR ↓ | fractal | instantaneous | animate | slow-animate | hollow | extensive | fluid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |
{-*} marks root nouns which were replaced with their TCR or BCR counterparts.
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 |