'Orelo

'Orelo is the language spoken by the Arahoi'i of Akahoshi asteroid. It is a dialect of Tuapa'ani, a language spoken by a minority Caldari population around the Tierijev pocket. It is grammatically identical to Tuapa'ani, with minor word and pronunciation differences.

'Orelo is an analytic (isolating) language. There is no use of inflection. Instead the grammatical meaning of words is marked by adjacent particles (short words) and their relative positions.

The predominant word order is "verb subject object", with the exception that if the sentence has a negative mood the order becomes "subject verb object" (e.g. a'ole 'oia e puka ana, "not he [future] graduate [single event]", "he won't graduate").

Pronunciation

'Orelo is known for having very few consonant phenomes, nine plus a glottal ('u'ina). The consonants are largely pronounced as in English, and are m, n, p, k, t, h, w, l and r.

The letter w is pronounced with a distinctive v sound following the vowels i or e. The letter h is pronounced with a slight sh sound if a word begins with it, and is sometimes transliterated sh.

'Orelo possesses five vowels, which can take either a long or short form. No distinction is used between the two forms in written 'Orelo (unlike the Tuapa'ani kahako). Long form vowels are pronounced identically to short form, and extend the sound of the vowel.

Vowels
Letter	Pronunciation
A	Like the a in far
E	Like the e in bet
I	Like the y in city
O	Like the o in sole
U	Like the oo in moon

Glottal

'U'ina (written with an apostrope, ') is a glottal consonant, and takes the form of a very brief break in a word. It is very brief, and can be difficult to detect. The break in the English phrase "oh oh" gives an indication of the duration of the pause.

Pronunciation

'Orelo morphemes take the form of either an isolated vowel, or a consonant vowel combination. Morphemes are never more than two letters, and never end with a consonant. Likewise, words always end in vowels, never consonants.

Examples
Word	Pronunciation
Kaika	Ka-i-ka
Arahoi'i	A-ra-ho-i-'i
'Orelo	'O-re-lo
Ahi'ahi	A-hi-'a-hi

Common Words and Phrases

A hui hou kakou	until we meet again
Ahi'ahi	hello
A 'ole pilikia	no problem
Akahele	be careful
E tomo mai	welcome
Malihini	"outsider" (non-Arahoi'i)
Nui loa	thank you
Pomaika 'i	good luck
Pu'ulu	family (refers to the currently living generation of Arahoi'i)
Kamali'i	children (used for any generation in the clade younger than the speaker's)
Kula hoa	reference mate (used for any of the same generation as the speaker)
Honi	kiss
'Anakala	uncle (used for males of any generation in the clade older than the speaker's)
'Anake	aunt (used for females of any generation in the clade older than the speaker's)
'Ao'ao	clade (refers to the Arahoi'i genotype as a whole, past, present and future. Not the same as family, which is "Pu'ulu")