V'sardhi Language
Vardish isn’t spoken—it’s sung, clicked, and inhaled.
It sounds like if whale song, Balinese gamelan, and the phonetic system of a deep-space coral civilization had a very weird baby.
- Melodic & tonal: pitch modifies meaning. A flat ka might mean “stone,” but a rising ká could mean “ancestor,” and a descending kà might mean “danger.”
- Glottal breaks: ‘ = full phonemic glottal stop, often seen in personal/clan names or verbs
- Diacritics everywhere: vowels are rarely left unadorned. Think ï, éä, ùö — stacked, doubled, fluttery
- Clustered syllables: Vardish likes consonant tangles and musical rhythm. Words often have a triplet beat.
Structural Madness
- Verb-subject-object (VSO), unless it’s reversed for poetic or emotional emphasis.
- No fixed tenses. Time is layered — verbs conjugate based on ecological cycles or emotional weight.
- Speech is communal. Some words require multiple speakers to pronounce fully (yep. Literal phonemic co-dependence.)
- No direct translation for “I” — only relational pronouns: "me-as-root," "me-in-harmony," "me-in-sorrow"
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