Veckish

Veckish is a fictional language and cultural identifier used in worldbuilding, contemporary fantasy literature, role-playing games, and related media. It is associated with the Veckish archipelago, a chain of wind-washed islands whose inhabitants are depicted as seafarers and merchants. The term Veckish also denotes a regional identity expressed in speech, song, and ceremony across the works in which it appears.

Linguistically, Veckish is described as a subject–verb–object language with moderate agglutinative tendencies. Nouns mark definiteness and plurality, and verbs encode tense and aspect through affixes. The phonology is described as featuring a compact vowel inventory and a mix of plosive, nasal, and fricative consonants, with stress typically falling on the penultimate syllable. The writing system is Latin-based, augmented by diacritics and several digraphs to represent common sounds in the language's world.

Core vocabulary reflects maritime and island life, including terms for navigation, weather, trade, and kinship. The language shows borrowings and calques from neighboring fictional languages in the same setting. Because Veckish appears in multiple works and by multiple authors, there are variants and dialects with differences in pronunciation, word usage, and idiom.

In practice, Veckish is used in dialogue, songs, ceremonial rites, and in in-universe legal or administrative texts within the stories. A community of creators maintains learning resources, glossaries, and style guides to standardize pronunciation and grammar for new projects.