Spreka

A Germanic language of people who span from the Sea of Azov to the Eastern end of the Alps, south to Thrace and Northern Macedonia, approximately as high as Byzantium, north as high as Kiev, maybe ut to the Pripyat river, but almost no trace of them is found higher than the source of the Teteriv river.

Mages from one of these people have created orcs. First, as a way of making strong soldiers for an army. Then, things got out of hand and the orcs ran away. They kept linguistic ties with Spreka but the orc language (Parman) is very different, partly due to the mutilation they suffered to become the monsters they now are.

These people are also (unofficially) found in the universe of the French tabletop roleplaying web-series Aventures. The orc language was based on the gibberish during one live session of the roleplaying web-series where they encountered an orc and the mage of the group communicated extensively with him. The details for the creation of the language can be found on the Tumblr for the language (in French).

The people speaking Spreka are completely unattested in the canon of the series, but posts on the Aventures forums (fr) as well as their use in fan-made roleplaying campaigns have been made.

They are part of a large universe in a long series of cross-media stories still in working progress.

Classification and Dialects
There are some different dialects but they are very close. The differences are mostly minor pronunciation changes, small spelling differences and very sporadic lexicon differences in the precise meaning of words, but they have similar general meaning. The main difference might be in foreign influences. There are dialects with Slavic influences, others with Greek ones, some with Celtic influences, and minor variations due to distance.

Consonants
The rhotic sound can be both a trill or a flap without changing the meaning. For pronunciation reasons, however, some are only pronounced as trills. However, most rhotic sounds can be changed from one to another to give a certain effect and depending on the context (whispering, singing, etc.)

Vowels
Diphthongs: aʊ, aɪ, εɪ

Phonotactics
It is rare to see two vowels following each other. There are only three diphthongs (aʊ, aɪ, εɪ).

Two consecutive consonants are rare. Even if words can be spelled that way, there will most often be a schwa added in between when speaking. This is however mostly seen in a final vowel cluster.

There are few three-consonant clusters allowed. One is the, realised by changing the alveolar /s/ fricative to a post-alveolar /∫/ fricative. Other three-consonant clusters will in most cases have a schwa added, generally in between the first and the second consonant.

Writing System
The vowels are shown as a set of two different vowels because they are pronounced differently depending on whether or not they are stressed. The first vowel is the stressed version, the second is the unstressed. The diphthongs are marked as long vowels (ː) but this is not always respected. Unstressed diphthongs will often be found as short, depending on the dialect.

The stress in a word in Spreka is always on the first syllable.