ohuelti

Ohuelti is a fictional language developed for a speculative fiction setting centered on the Ohuelti Archipelago, a chain of islands in the southern ocean. It is described as the native tongue of the Ohuelti people in in-world histories, folklore, and language guides. The name Ohuelti both labels the language and denotes the ethnic community that speaks it.

Phonology is moderately conservative, with a small consonant inventory and five vowel qualities. The consonants include p, t, k, m, n, s, l, r and a voiced series, with syllables typically CV or CVC. Stress is usually on the penultimate syllable. Ohuelti is largely agglutinative, attaching affixes to verbs and nouns to indicate tense, aspect, mood, number, and evidential stance; syntax follows a basic subject–object–verb order.

Orthography uses a Latin-based alphabet with diacritics to mark vowel quality and tone in the informal script, and a ceremonial syllabary is described for inscriptions. Nouns employ plural markers; evidence shows extensive use of postpositions rather than case endings. Adjectives and numerals generally follow the noun. Pronouns may appear as separate words or as clitics on the verb, depending on discourse context.

In the fictional world, Ohuelti is taught in local schools and maintained by language preservation communities in the archipelago. Estimates place fluent speakers in the low thousands, with ongoing efforts to document phrases, folklore, and vocabulary. Because it is a constructed language, details vary by source within the in-world corpus, and scholars often compare dictionaries, grammars, and narrative texts to assess consistency.