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#REDIRECT [[DF2014:Goblin language]]
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The '''Goblin language''' is one of the [[language]]s the player will come across. This language is used in-game for the names of the universe, continents, rivers, goblin governments and settlements, [[goblin]]s, [[artifact]]s and [[engraving]]s. However, as of yet, it lacks everything necessary for proper conversation, like grammar or personal pronouns.
 
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==Alphabet==
 
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The letters of the Goblin alphabet are:
 
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|bgcolor="#EFEFEF" align="center" colspan="26" | '''Majuscule forms''' (also called '''uppercase''' or '''capital letters''')
 
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|width=2% align="center"|A||width=2% align="center"|Â||width=2% align="center"|Ä||width=2% align="center"|Å||width=2% align="center"|B||width=2% align="center"|D||width=2% align="center"|E||width=2% align="center"|Ê||width=2% align="center"|Ë||width=2% align="center"|G||width=2% align="center"|H||width=2% align="center"|K||width=2% align="center"|L||width=2% align="center"|M||width=2% align="center"|N||width=2% align="center"|O||width=2% align="center"|Ô||width=2% align="center"|Ö||width=2% align="center"|P||width=2% align="center"|R||width=2% align="center"|S||width=2% align="center"|T||width=2% align="center"|U||width=2% align="center"|Û||width=2% align="center"|X||width=2% align="center"|Z
 
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|bgcolor="#EFEFEF" align="center" colspan="26" | '''Minuscule forms''' (also called '''lowercase''' or '''small letters''')
 
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Of these 26 letters, 12 are vowels (A, Â, Ä, Å, E, Ê, Ë, O, Ô, Ö, U, Û); the 14 others are consonants.
 
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The letters C, F, I, J, Q, V, W, and Y of the [[wikipedia:ISO basic Latin alphabet|ISO basic Latin alphabet]] do not occur in the Goblin alphabet.
 
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===Letter frequency===
 
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| 1 || A || 671 || 6.43%
 
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| 2 || Â || 29 || 0.28%
 
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| 3 || Ä || 27 || 0.26%
 
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| 4 || Å || 1 || 0.01%
 
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| 5 || B || 265 || 2.54%
 
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| 6 || D || 280 || 2.69%
 
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| 7 || E || 312 || 2.99%
 
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| 8 || Ê || 15 || 0.14%
 
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| 9 || Ë || 24 || 0.23%
 
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| 10 || G || 577 || 5.53%
 
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| 11 || K || 306 || 2.93%
 
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| 12 || L || 436 || 4.18%
 
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| 13 || M || 550 || 5.27%
 
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| 14 || N || 754 || 7.23%
 
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| 15 || O || 1292 || 12.39%
 
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| 16 || Ô || 59 || 0.57%
 
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| 17 || Ö || 70 || 0.67%
 
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| 18 || P || 271 || 2.6%
 
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| 19 || R || 384 || 3.68%
 
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| 20 || S || 1523 || 14.6%
 
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| 21 || T || 650 || 6.23%
 
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| 22 || TH || 6 || 0.06%
 
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| 23 || U || 1296 || 12.43%
 
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| 24 || Û || 66 || 0.63%
 
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| 25 || X || 262 || 2.51%
 
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==Graphemics==
 
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* [[wikipedia:digraph (orthography)|Digraph]] ''th''.
 
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** ''h'' only occurs in the digraph ''th''. ''h'' is a  rare letter in Goblin.
 
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** ''p'' only occurs in the digraph ''sp''.
 
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* Common consonant clusters ''st'', ''sp'', ''sm'', ''sl'', ''sn'', and ''str''.
 
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* Goblin has no [[wikipedia:diphthongs|diphthongs]].
 
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* [[wikipedia: syllable structure|Syllable structure]] (C)<sup>3</sup>V(C)<sup>3</sup>.
 
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The Goblin language has three diacritics  ([[wikipedia:Circumflex|◌̂]], [[wikipedia:Diaeresis (diacritic)|◌̈]], and [[wikipedia:Ring (diacritic)|◌̊]]) used on four vowels (''a'', ''e'', ''o'', and ''u''). It's probable that this is just a simpler version of the Dwarven language's system, keeping the mid, falling, and rising pitch contours.
 
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It's interesting that the diacritics used here are the exact ones not used in Elvish (and vise-versa).
 
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==Vocabulary==
 
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{{main|Template:Noun dictionary|l1=Noun dictionary|Template:Verb dictionary|l2=Verb dictionary|Template:Adjective dictionary|l3=Adjective dictionary|Template:Prefix dictionary|l4=Prefix dictionary}}
 
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The average word in the Goblin language is 4.815 letters long. The longest known word is ''snosstrosp'', meaning "clout".
 
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The average word has 1.878 syllables. Words either have one or two syllables.
 
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{{Language}}
 
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[[Category:Language]]
 
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[[ru:Goblin language]]
 

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