Orengasiksi

Orengasiksi is a fictional constructed language (conlang) used in worldbuilding and speculative fiction. In its canonical setting, it is spoken by the coastal Orenga people of an eastern archipelago and serves as a cultural marker in novels, games, and online lore. The name is presented within the language itself as a compound of morphemes meaning "sea speech."

Phonology: It has a five-vowel system (a e i o u) and a consonant inventory including p t k b d g f s h m n l r j w. The language features vowel harmony that pairs suffix vowels with root vowels (front vs back). Syllables are typically CV or CVC, with limited consonant clusters.

Morphology and syntax: Orengasiksi is largely agglutinative. Nouns take case and number suffixes; postpositions mark grammatical relations. The basic word order is subject–object–verb (SOV). Adjectives follow nouns; demonstratives and numerals appear before or after depending on emphasis. Verbs encode tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality, and agree with the subject through suffixes; negation is expressed with a negative particle preceding the verb.

Lexicon and writing: The lexicon draws on maritime and coastal life, with loanwords from neighboring fictitious languages in the setting. The writing system is a Latin-based alphabet with diacritics to mark vowel harmony and palatalization. Orthography generally aligns with pronunciation, though certain morphemes preserve allomorphy in writing.

History and usage: Orengasiksi emerged in the fictional proto-speech of the Orenga seafarers and diverged into regional varieties within the archipelago. It is described in contemporary fiction and in fan-created grammars and dictionaries. Active learning resources include phrasebooks and short narratives, with speaker estimates ranging from several thousand to tens of thousands in the imagined world.