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Learning Modern Golic Vulcan (Vulkansu)

Primary Resources

Kir'Shara: Vulcan Language Page

Offers a Wayback Machine link to the Vulcan Language Dictionary and the basics of Vulcan word, tense, and grammatical structure.

*Vulcan Language Dictionary

Not the same as the VLD provided by Kir'Shara's Wayback Machine, rudimentary search engine to quickly find Vulkansu translations to english words and storehouses specific Vulcan cultural references that cannot be translated into an English word.

Vulcan Language Institute

A website in development by @yel-halansu among other contributors to composite a very large index of Vulcan languages (including dialects), words, and Vulcan stories in both English & Vulkansu.

The Vulcan Language PDF

A somewhat outdated but still useful Vulkansu dictionary, primarily helpful for the language lessons in the latter half.

Kor'saya: Vulkansu Script

Lore on the development of the ancient script, there are other fonts like “handwriting” and “Dzhaleyl” but AGV (Ancient Golic Vulcan) is the one which contains the letter-by-letter breakdown.

Vulcan Alphabet Song

A rudimentary children's song "ghost written" by Amanda Grayson on the absolute basics of the Vulcan alphabet from consonants, to vowels, punctuation, self-identification, to digits. (Hopefully I will be able to put it to music soon instead of just lyrics!)

Names

City Names

Monastery Names

Name Prefixes & Suffixes

Translations for the apostrophes and hyphens in Vulcan names.

Vulcan Name Repository

A glossary of Vulcan names and their meanings. Explanations for types of names in Vulcan culture:

Place of Origin ~ Ancestry ~ te-Vikram (the Deep Desert Tribe) ~ Childhood Names ~ Personality ~ Occupation ~ Survival ~ Mysticism

Anecdotes & Ancillary Material

Vulcan Alphabet Song

A rudimentary children's song "ghost written" by Amanda Grayson on the absolute basics of the Vulcan alphabet from consonants, to vowels, punctuation, self-identification, to digits. (Hopefully I will be able to put it to music soon instead of just lyrics!)

Vulcan Flashcards

Beautifully designed flashcards for the Vulkansu alphabet from A through T in the phonetic alphabet.

The Vulcan Accent

What does a Vulcan accent sound like in Federation Standard? Question posited by @sporkandpringles, answer provided by @nuclear-wessels!

The Origin of "Fool"

Anecdote provided by @porthos-stew and lore provided by @yel-halansu

Vulcan Colloquialisms

Though logical only in specific contexts, @makeallthingsyours has accrued a handful of common Vulcan expressions and translated them into Federation Standard

Click Here to Return to the Vulcan Masterpost (Coming Soon!)

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Vulcan language

http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-r-gardner-and-the-vulcan-language-institute/the-vulcan-language/paperback/product-54300.html

The book I use for grammar. The original website doesn’t seem to exist anymore, and it’s nice to physically add words to my dictionary.

I use www.starbase-10.de/vld for an online dictionary. I’m not going to post translations often so that reading can be practiced.

I would post korsaya.org, but there seems to be something wrong with the site. (Internal server error, whether it’s my problem or theirs I don’t know.)

[vulcanlanguage-blog]

I finally found the time for a more detailed study of Standard Modern Vulcan writing (gotavlu-zukitaun) on Briht'uhn's website Korsaya.org. 

This is my first attempt at creating a piece of writing in this style - it is what would be considered the 'normal' Vulcan writing; the other two types being calligraphy (vanu-tanaf-kitaun) and handwriting (el'ru-kitaun).

The full text is my translation of the chorus of The Fray's "How To Save A Life", the song I translated and sang (because I could not think of anything else, okay):

Wilat laf-tor nash-veh Pak-tor t'hai'la La ein-wilat svi'kis-ka'es --  Vesht dungi ki'nam-tor kum'i k'du Kuv fai-tor uf korsau ha'kiv.

The second picture is a close-up of the text.

This method is not as elaborate as the calligraphy we have been posting so far, because it requires less delicacy and symmetry. I think I will post more of this now, and at some point I may explore the handwriting. 

Made, shamelessly, with a cheap brush and cheap black watercolour.

- T'Puhku

[vulcanlanguage-blog]

We have been using Briht'uhn's website, Korsaya.org, as a resource for both calligraphy and phrases. Briht'uhn writes everything on this website in both English and Vulcan, and for this particular paragraph about the 2009 Star Trek movie, she added an audio file of the Vulcan translation. 

People that speak or at least know some Russian or other Slavonic language, which includes me, will find that spoken Vulcan actually sounds very similar to these due to a lot of guttural sounds (k and kh, especially) and the clear distinction between voiceless (s, sh) and voiced (z, zh) s-sounds.

The audio is rather fast-paced, so I would suggest you try to read along with what you hear, for a start.

- T'Puhku

And for those who are Canadian English as I am, it will sound like a slurr of alien sounds, eh.

- T'Laina