Lortho

Introduction

Lortho (IPA : [loɾtʰo]) is an a priori constructed language created by Brian Bourque in the beginning of 2003. It originally started as a prop for a strategy board game where only the script was created for aesthetics. Fast forward about 13 years and it has now evolved into a fusional-agglutinative language. The verbs are changed in conjugation; however, suffixes and prefixes are added to nouns to denote case.

Inspiration

A friend was creating a board game similar to Risk; however, instead of taking place on Earth, this new game was to take place on an inter-planetary scale. The game creator wanted to create a seemingly alien theme and requested a fictional script. The name of the race on this game is "Lortho" and thus the seed was planted. The author was unable to work on this piece for quite sometime until he joined the CONLANG mailing list and observed both seasoned and novice conlangers discussing all aspects of linguistics. Since then it was decided to move forward and make Lortho come into fruition.

Phonology

Orthography

Lortho Alphabet

The Lortho alphabet is a pseudo-abjad. All letters are consonants except for one vowel. All other vowels are written as diacritics.

Consonant Inventory

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Plosive	p pʰ b		t tʰ d dʰ					k kʰ			ʔ
Nasal	m		n
Trill
Tap or Flap			ɾ
Fricative	f			s	ʃ						h
Lateral Fricative
Approximant
Lateral Approximant			l lʰ

Vowel Inventory

There are five vowels in Lortho and are strictly pronounced regardless of placement in words:

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid			o
Open-mid	ɛ
Mid			ɑ