Cultural (Iyula):
The features, phonology, syntax and morphology are mostly derived from canonized vulcan language. Vulcan grammar in its full form describes and translates from English literally, but also can omit words due to a sentence’s context, as in nam-tor being dropped because of left-to-right inheritance. Pro-drop copula and morphologic participles as an analytical language, commonly noun-compounding, long and short vowels only differ between dialects, long vowels “aa” are rare except in place names and loan-words and otherwise written “ah”. Adverbs can have a combining form, and prepositions are always a prefix in modern-vulcan. Some dialects require pervasive preposition suffixes, but they aren’t covered until vulcan level three, this is still the intro to level 1. Common onset consonant clusters: psth-, fn-, tv-, kv-, kvl-, tl-, yr-, dj-, and many more, 60 consonant clusters in total. When writing/typing vulcan is written in the direction your computer uses, but can be handwritten in any direction as long as consistent. These alphabets above are used to write Golic Vulcan (reference as vuhlkansu, MGT or VLI) as taught in this book as the main language, but can include the lesser used dialects and loanwords. When reading Vulcan font, there are no capital letters, but an ahm-glat (name-sign) is often used to distinguish proper nouns, and has its own symbol. Humans must use Federation Standard alphabets to learn the vulcan language. Loan words from other dialects and new compounds are used in vuhlkansu to translate english accurately, but fluent speakers may sound like they are speaking in only nouns or even omitting context due to vulcan’s word-root system, and will be discussed in the final lessons.
