Laqi language

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Laqi is a ConLang spoken by the overwhelming majority of citizens of the county of Modan-lach and in smaller numbers in Lywind. It is a recognised official language of the Barony of K'Tzuni. Believed to have originated from dialects spoken by Khaz-Modanians in ancient times, Laqi is designed to have a Turkic appearance in its vocabulary, its alphabet designed greatly on those used by the Soviets in the 1920s for languages such as Tuvinian and Azeri. The first work on Laqi was started by Maksym Hadjimehmetov under the reign of Kaiser Mors V. A Laqi Phrasebook and basic grammar are currently being compiled.

Laqi Alphabet

The Laqi alphabet is generally phoenetic, though there are regional variations in Upper Lach (see Modan-lach) and stress changes according to gender endings of adjectives and nouns. Unlike some of the Turkic languages which it is based on, there is no vowel harmony. The alphabet consists of thirty letters, seven of which are vowels.


  • A- ‘a’ as in apple
  • B- hard ‘b’ as in bet
  • C- ‘ts’ or ‘tz’ as in kibbutz
  • D-‘d’ as in ‘dot’
  • E- acute ‘e’ as in French soufflé
  • G- hard ‘g’ as in great
  • I- ‘ee’ as in need
  • J- ‘y’ as in year
  • K- ‘k’ as in kill
  • L- ‘l’ as in lemon
  • Ł- as in the Polish- soft English ‘w’ as in where
  • M- ‘m’ as in meat
  • N- ‘n’ as in nearly
  • Ŋ- ‘ny’ as in Chechnya
  • O- short ‘o’ as in lot
  • Ө- ‘oe’ as in German ö
  • P- ‘p’ as in party
  • R- ‘r’ as in really
  • S- ‘s’ as in simple
  • Š- ‘sh’ as in sharp
  • T- ‘t’ as in toast
  • U- ‘oo’ as in good
  • Ə- short ‘u’ as in tug
  • V- German ‘v’ (i.e soft ‘v’)
  • X- ‘ch’ as in cheese
  • Ҳ- ‘kh’ as in loch
  • Ь- clips preceeding vowel or consonant short
  • Z- ‘z’ as in zebra
  • Ž- soft ‘zh’ or the ‘su’ in leisure