Editing LetsBuild5e:Languages (section)

==Orcish==

This is the speech of the mountain orcs, who have spoken it in some form since before the world last flipped. It has co-existed with Old Imperial for many generations, and although they are structurally different, they have come to have similar pronunciation and overlapping vocabulary.

Names in this language are always "won". An orc (or human, halfling, or elf, if they're members of an orcish-speaking culture) isn't referred to by a personal name at all for the first few years, just something that translates to "boy" (''wa'aprag'') or "girl" (''zhiprag''). Maybe an adjective ("young", "tall", "spotty", "dirty" - ''vetz, kög, bangvlöd, banflig'') if someone needs to distinguish them. At around age 10, they get their first true name as a coming-of-age ceremony. These are still pretty generic - a child chooses the profession they want to go into, perform a basic challenge in it, and if they succeed (as judged by the tribe's elders), they get the name referring to the job. A girl might declare she wants to be called Hunter (''Prazad''), and if she can bring down a few animals with only a bow and one arrow, she gets the name.

Getting a distinguishing name comes around age 20, when the individual declares the name they want to claim, and the elders establish a suitable challenge for it. Claiming a really impressive name requires completing an equally impressive challenge. This process can go on for someone's whole life, if they want it to, with each new name requiring a new challenge. Getting more names equals more prestige, since it shows you've completed more and more impressive challenges. And when you're being formal, you have to use all of someone's names, or risk insulting them and them challenging you. The elders, of course, can also use it as a brake on an overly-ambitious individual, since they get to set the challenges - get too big for yourself, and you might find that challenging for the name "the Tallest" (''Vurörrkög'') might require touching the sky, or "Swims-Like-An-Otter" (''Ikva-Doirellim'') means you have to cross a river right at the rapids, in the middle of spring flood. (Original pitch: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19316812#post19316812]; decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19342866#post19342866])

Orcish has a relatively restricted range of terms for familial relations, and even parents, children and siblings refer to each other by personal names rather than relationship titles. To address an adult orc as 'daughter' or 'little brother' is a harsh put-down from the older family member. Orcs who are not members of the same family are generally not told how others are related to each other, unless it is needed in order to adjudicate law or prevent inbreeding. It is rare, but possible, for someone who has continued to excel in the same field as an older relative to bid for a name like 'Son of Great Hunter', especially if 'Great Hunter' has died. Such a name may be granted if the heir is a sufficiently excellent representative of their forebear's actions, but it will always be additional to strictly personal names. (Discussion: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19490958#post19490958])

As in Draconic, an apostrophe here represents a glottal stop. ''Aw'' is pronounced to rhyme with English ''how''. As in Dwarvish, the vowel ö has the same value as in Swedish. The stress is on the antepenultimate syllable.

::''Vurwa’arog b’vurzhirog watira vurgbrak ghbirka m’hol. Vban vurbrak atra furg khabist got vafidra b’vagpyaw. Viggr vurzhirog vipirza mob vurbrak.''