#Vuhlkansu

[jennelikejennay]

Studying some Vulcan lately, for fun and profit. It's driving me a little nuts because I've studied a lot of languages (French Latin Greek Spanish Old English Quenya (I'm only really competent in Latin though)) and made up my own languages and it is such an illogical language. Seriously half the verbs conjugate a little bit and some don't conjugate at all? And some of the pronouns are longer than the nouns? A nice graceful language like Latin can say "I said" in one word (dixī) but Vulcan can't do it without a whole pile of words (vesht tar-tor nash-veh).

I can get around this by saying it developed organically, of course, there are pre-surakian holdovers, there probably used to be different pronouns which were replaced by other things for respectful reasons,* different dialects melded.

*what really gets me is that "I" is "nash-veh," (this one), and why would you have two whole syllables to replace a one syllable name like "Spock"? But considering Mexican Spanish dropped its perfectly useful second person plural for "usted," from vuestra merced, your grace, I can't argue that this wouldn't happen in real life. It just makes it heckin annoying to say "I want my book" (Aitlu nash-veh dunap t'nash-veh).

Of course Doylistically the reason is that Vulcan was used in canon for some time before anyone actually made it up. It was just gibberish that later got analyzed and turned into a language.

But man, Klingon was much easier. I never studied it seriously but I do know a couple things and the only thing that's really hard about it is the consonants.

ANYWAY, given all that, you'd think I would lose interest but instead I'm thinking of writing a (very short) fic in Vulcan 🤣 Hey, there's no better way to learn than by doing!

[speakvulcantome]

"Guys, this is my new study buddy!"

Tendi + T'Lyn, Lower Decks, 3x10

[odva-vuhlkansu]

[justanotherstartrekblog]

Colors in Vulcan - Kurlar t'Vuhlkansu

Red - Yon-kur Crimson - Hirat-kur Scarlet - Ug’yon-kur Vermilion - Yon-zhar-kur Maroon - Nev-kur

Orange - Zhar-kur

Yellow - Kin-kur Chartreuse - Tehk-kur

Green - Yar-kur Dark Green - Mu’yar’kur Light Green - Ha’yar-kur Teal - Yar-pla-kur Turquoise - Folu-kur

Blue - Pla-kur Dark Blue - Spo-kur Light Blue - Ha’pla-kur Aquamarine - Mazh-kur Ultramarine - Ug’pla-kur Indigo - Mu’pla-kur Cerulean - Igen-kur Cyan - Hush-pla-kur

Purple - Gahv-kur Fuchsia - Ug’gahv-kur Lavender - Pulu-kur Magenta - Mol-kur Puce - Gahv-yon-kur

Pink - Faf-kur

White - Wan-kur Off White - Be-wan-kur

Black - Nesh-kur

Brown - Khav-kur Tan - Mazhiv-kur Ecru - Ha’mazhiv-kur Taupe - Khav-zhai-kur Beige - Ha’mazhiv-kur

Grey Dark Grey - Ras-kur Light Grey - Zhai-kur Silver - Haul-kur

[devilishbird]

handwritten golic vulcan (as shown by omniglot) deserves more love. that alphabet is gorgeous and fun to write and sick as fuck and much better than its swirly sibling that steps off the page and punches me in the mild dyslexia every time i see it. 10/10 recommend taking a look

[tkaythevulcan]

“I find my peace in you”

[falco-cassini]

Library of terms related to Stoicism

A little library I made, to compile content of previous posts.

[lord-of-christmas-lights]

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It's 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Stukh. Kim-shah ek'zehl. Nam-tor aifa halan-lar t'yel-hali Enterprise. T'ish-veh kaukuh tevun-lar skrol: skothon-tor flekh uzh-panu-lar, na'glazhau uzh-mene eh uzh-sutenivaya-lar, heh vakh hal-tor wilat vesht hal-tor rai sasu.

-a rudimentary translation of the space speech into Modern Golic Vulcan by me, a nerd with too much time on their hands and access to an archived version of the VLI.

[yel-halansu]

Hi! Do you have any favorite words/phrases/quotes in Vuhlkansu? 🖖

Na'Shaya! 🖖 it's really hard to pick! Here are some favourites:

k'war'ma'khon: the telepathic link shared by all Vulcans as a species

Dakh pthak. Nam-tor ri ret na'fan-kitok fa tu dakh pthak: Cast out fear. There is no room for anything else until you cast out fear.

Vesht akarshif, lesh Vuhlkansular ulidar t'falek, t'salur mazhiv heh t'yon-dak yon-dukal. Sharush solektra yakul etek - salan tam-tor fi'urozh heh vok-tor kahrlar. Tusa na'kusut heh kali-tor na'rishan -- : Ages past, Vulcans bore the mark of heat, the scar of blowing sand and burning sun. The ground opened to eat us, the wind danced on our crops and leveled our cities. We wept for the pain and we fought for survival . . .

I do love the word t'hy'la too 🥺

LLAP! 🖖

[frecklenog]

loving conlang is so frustrating when you don’t know anything about linguistics and are a little bit dumb

[cordrazine-official]

conversational vulcan isn't a marketable skill on a CV until we make first contact and those sexy Vulcans start showing up. every interviewer who ever made fun of me for listing Vulcan as a skill is gonna bite their nails when I get to date all the Vulcan ladies and they just stand there alone and yearning. losers

[jennelikejennay]

The other day I posted a fic about warrior bonds in pre-reform Vulcan culture. It came with a poem which I imagined a vassal might say on the death of his lord. (It's about suicide so, uh—be warned.)

Then @celestialvoyeur translated it into Vulcan, which astounds and impresses me—as conlangs go, it's not the easiest. (That would be Quenya.)

I edited it a little bit, because the way I wrote it in English was a little clunky in Vulcan (I used too many pronouns; Vulcans often leave them out), and then I wrote it in calligraphy.

I'm getting the hang of it! Still not sure the brush pen is exactly the perfect tool, especially since I have shaky hands at times. But the effect is not too bad!

The English version is this:

[My] lord lies bleeding, and I have broken [my] bow.

[My] lord lies dying, and I have set down [my] spear.

[My] lord lies dead, and I have put [my] sword to rest

In the warm green nest of my vitals.

The Vulcan version by Celestial Voyeur is this:

T'nash-veh S'haile ti khafaya, heh nash-veh ma pushau t'nash-veh kes-wun.

t'nash-veh S'haile ti tor tev-tor, heh nash-veh ma eku ne' t'nash-veh tilek.

t'nash-veh S'haile ti tevik, heh nash-veh ma shitau t'nash-veh shek tor shom

svi' wuh lamekh yar-kur ha-kel t' t'nash-veh nafek.

You can learn about Vulcan calligraphy here.

And the fic is here.

[speakvulcantome]

Someone else made, I found, please don't delete my account. It would seem... Leonard Nimoy is a sex symbol to a subset of internet users I wouldn't think were into Spock.

[odva-vuhlkansu]

Rom uzh-tevun(Happy New Year)

To start off the new year, I'm now selling custom Vulcan stickers on etsy.

[justanotherstartrekblog]

Vulkan Numbers - Su'uslar t'Vuhlkansu

1 - Wuhkuh 2 - Dahkuh 3 - Rehkuh 4 - Kehkuh 5 - Kaukuh 6 - Shehkuh 7 - Stehkuh 8 - Ohkuh 9 - Naukuh 10 - Lehkuh 11 - Leh-wun 12 - Leh-dah 20 - Dah-leh 21 - Dah-leh Wuhkuh 22 - Dah-leh Dahkuh 30 - Reh-leh 40 - Keh-leh 50 - Kau-leh 60 - Sheh-leh 70 - Steh-leh 80 - Oh-leh 90 - Nau-leh 100 - Teh 200 - Dah-teh 1000 - Leh-teh 2000 - Dah-leh-teh 1.000.000 - Zhon 1.000.000.000 - Moh

[girlfromvulcan]