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Language that [[Orks]] speak reflects their nature, being a crude and unsubtle one, but possessing more insults and war terms than any other. It is known to consist of many dialects, that wary between different [[Clans]] and worlds.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|4}} The language includes a lot of loan words, including the ones taken from [[Low Gothic]], however, due to the their physiology Orks are unable to pronounce some sounds and most of those get heavily changed.{{Fn|5}} The Ork language uses a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logogram logographic system] and is written in the form of glyphic script. Its core consists of glyphs that indicate Clan, Warband, common Ork concepts and elements of Ork names. These are augmented by phonetic runes that can be used to write most Ork words and words from other languages.{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|3}} Ork Language can be learned by humans to some extent, the most famous example being Sebastian Yarrick.{{Cite This}}
==Lexicon==
Main [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexeme lexeme] of Ork language is a root word, that is represented in written form either by a glyph in written languageor a number of phonetic runes. They These are common Ork words and name elements. Naturally, there are myriads of them, varying between worlds, clans and different regions of Ork space, but some of them, listed lower, are universally understood and are included in almost any dialect of Ork language. These basic root words represect all concepts, fundamental to the Orkish way of life. As such they are known among all Orks and have probably remained unchanged from the dawn of the Ork race.{{Fn|1}}
These root words are used to create names of units, tribes, individuals, places or battles and to indicate ownership and such. Most of them have multiple meanings, that depends on the context. In fact, Orks don't recognise the strict limitations on the meanings of words and described glyphs may have different meanings not listed here. They often string words togrther in imaginative compounds to express what they mean, resulting in a very approximate manner. Because of it, Ork language is not known for its clarity as Orks do not demand precision from it and are quite happy to follow the gist of what is being said.{{Fn|1}}
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The literal translation of this will look like this:
*'''Owns-vehicle Ugwort-Blueface, Evil-Sunz, Gutdreg's tribe.'''{{Fn|1}}
==Ork names==
Orkish names usually consist of two parts: a prefix and a suffix (for example, '''Grim-Bog''' or '''Grimbog'''). Some Orks have two such names composed in the same manner (for example, '''Grimbog Nazbad'''). Orkish personal names, place names and tribal names follow the same pattern. In the end, particularly successful Ork's full name may be as long as '''[[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka]]'''.{{Fn|1}}
:''See also: [[List of Ork Warbosses]] and [[List of Ork Oddboys]]''
==Ork numerical system==
Orks write numbers by numerical runes shown above. Larger numbers are made up of combinations of these runes. For example, 10 is written with two 5 runes and 100 - with twenty 5 runes. This system is very crude and simple but is good enough for Orks.{{Fn|1}}
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