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Pronunciation Key:
Vowels:
a -- "a" in ball
ah -- "o" in hot if spoken about twice normal speed
ai -- "i" in nice
au -- "ou" in house
e -- "e" in bed
eh -- "e" in yet spoken about twice normal speed
ei -- "a" in same
ih -- as "i" in hit
i -- "ee" in seem
o -- "o" in home
oh -- "o" in throat with lips rounded, like a short Scandinavian "å"
oi -- "oy" in boy
u -- "oo" in soon
uh -- "u" in ugly but with lips more rounded
Doubling an individual vowel lengthens the sound, but doesn't change it.

Consonants -same as English except:
c -- not usually used, either k or s will be used depending on the sound
ch -- always hard as "ch" in cheese
kh -- close to the "ch" in German Bach or Scottish loch
j -- not usually used except at the beginnings of words, "dzh" is often interchanged with it
th -- always hard like "th" in thank
y -- always a consonant, as "y" in yellow
zh -- like the second "g" in garage

Doubled consonants:
ll -- drawn out, often slightly trilled
mm -- at the end of a word, almost like "muh"
nn -- at the end of a word, almost like "nuh"
rr -- drawn out, often slightly rolled
ss -- drawn out, almost like a slight hiss

Vulcan includes consonant combinations that never occur in English.
There are no silent letters, you must pronounce all letters.

Accentuation:
In words with 2 syllables, the stress generally falls on the first syllable or vowel.
In words with 3 or more syllables, the stress usually falls on the second syllable or vowel.

Vocabulary (Vulcan to English)
[ A ][ B ][ C ][ D ][ E ][ F ][ G ][ H ][ I ][ J ][ K ][ L ][ M ][ N ][ O ][ P ][ R ][ S ][ T ][U][ V ][ W ][ Y ][ Z ]

A.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation Source
aalth
animal made into pets
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
ah'hrak
the Forge
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
ahkh
the Great War
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
ahkor
a large bird (beautiful copper, gold, and chrome colored feathers, noted for its courage and grace)
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
akspra
the follower of an inadequate philosophy
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
a'kweth
the hidden (intelligences of the deep sand on Vulcan)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
alieth
(female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
anauk
(male personal name)
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
arie'mnu
passion's mastery (often mistranslated as "lack of emotion" or "suppression of emotion" or "control of emotion")
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
arlanga
mountain range near Shi'Kahr on Vulcan
"Star Trek Log One: Yesteryear" [Alan Dean Foster]
a'shav
nation-state? on Vulcan containing the city Shi'Kahr
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
ashif
name of asteroid belt and space station there
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
ashv'cezh
revenge worse than death
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
asumi
Vulcan combat sport/dance
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath]
a'Tha
immanence - the direct experience of the being or force responsible for the creation and maintennance of the universe
(a sense of the existence and presence of God)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]

B.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source
balev
name of Vulcan House
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]

C.
 
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source
cha'
son of  (prefix)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
chakh'
plant whose dried strings were used to weave hunting nets
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
cheveh
a type of scavenger
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
chkariya
weasel-like Vulcan creature
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
cthia
reality-truth - the truth about the universe, the way things are rather than the way we would like them to be.  It embraces
the physical and inner realities both at once, in all their changes.  The concept says that if we do not tell the universe the
truth about itself, if we don't treat it and the people in it as what they are, real and precious, it will turn against us, and none
of our affairs will prosper.  (Modern Vulcan word often inaccurately translated as "logic")
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]

D.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source
da'Nikhirch
supernova that appeared when Surak was born (lit: the Eye of Fire)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
de'Khriv
chief city of Lhai nation on Vulcan
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
d'mallu caniverous plant (vines ensnare prey)
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
"Star Trek Log One: Yesteryear" [Alan Dean Foster]
duveh
province on Vulcan
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]

E.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source
evekh
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]

F.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source



G.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source
gelevesh
(ship name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
Gracka

"Corona" [Greg Bear]
grake
(male personal name)
"Corona" [Greg Bear]

H.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source
hanesh
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
harauk
(male personal name)
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
hehei
place known for its gemstones
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
hei-Nekhlavah
(from a place?)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
heya
mountain
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
hr'Khash'te
Expunging group (one of the three legislative bodies that handles Vulcan's planetary legislation, its function is to veto or remove laws -
                            removing a law requires 1/4 of its 2006 members to be in agreement)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]

I.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source 
inoor

"Corona" [Greg Bear]
irik
nation on Vulcan
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]

J.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source 
jah
(a bit, a wit, an  iota?)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]

K.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source 
kaiidth
sign of resignation (what is, is - no point in agitating one's self over what you cannot control)
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
ka nifoor
the most basic ritual of Vulcan maturity (5 yrs old is too young for it)
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
kasa
juice
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
k'asumi
the lethal all out form of asumi, never practiced except to the death
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath]
kehlevt
family house (a rich one)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
kesh
(female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
khoteth (male personal name) "The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
khut
watcher (noun)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
krawkra
don't worry about it, it's nothing (a complex Vulcan term roughly equivalent to the Spanish "de nada")
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
kreyla
type of bread, delicious crisp biscuits in a variety of flavors
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
k'vath
enter, come, proceed
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath]
kavife
challenge, alternate grammatical form pertaining to the form and subject of the challenge
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath]

L.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source 
lahirh
nation-state on Vulcan
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
lahirhi
(form of lahirh)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
lanka-gar
night flying predator
"Sarek" [A.C.Cripen]
lasha
type of precious stone (used in personal ornamentation, e.g. a necklace)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
lassiriheh
province on Vulcan
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
lhai
nation on Vulcan
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]

M.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source 
mahak
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
mahn'heh
one-time protectorate on Vulcan
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
maut akspra

"Corona" [Greg Bear]
mishih
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]

N.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source 
na

"Corona" [Greg Bear]
nakh
ancient form of currency
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
nakh'lanta
restaurant in the old city part of shi'kahr
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
nak'meth
name of a great sword
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
nashih
(clan name?)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
na'Tha'thhya
the Passing-On, the investiture of one's self-that-has-been in katra mode, so that it might not be lost to the Other
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
nehau
vibes, the feeling in your bones that something gives you, (highly subjective)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
nesheh
(female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
nevasa
40 Eridani A, the Vulcan sun
"Sarek" [A.C.Crispen]
nomikh
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
noor

"Corona" [Greg Bear]
nortakh
(male personal name)
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
numkwa

"Corona" [Greg Bear]
numosma
the Plank-Wheeler length (the scale of the very small where space breaks down into a maze of singularities)
"Corona" [Greg Bear]

O.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source 
olojhica

"Corona" [Greg Bear]
orniaga
irritated
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
ovek
nation-state on Vulcan
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]

<>P.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source 
pau
corona
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
pekev
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
Pelasht
it was once a fortress and the only site for thousands of miles where water sprang from the stone;
(until the time of Surak, wars were fought over its possession even when the winner might only possess it for a day)
It is currently the site of the Vulcan Science Academy in Shi'Kahr
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
Phelsh't
clan that held a mountain spring area which acquired the same name before they were conquered by the clan of the Eye
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
pstha
search, hunt
"Corona" [Greg Bear]

R.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source 
radak
(male personal name)
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
rasha
(ship name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
reshek
third letter of the Vulcan alphabet
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
retakh
place near one of Vulcan's poles
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]

S.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source 
sakht
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
sas-a-shar
a desert (called Vulcan's Forge by humans)
"Star Trek Log One: Yesteryear" [Alan Dean Foster]
sasav
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
savesh
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
sekar
(male personal name) "The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
selv
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
sendet
(male personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
senek
(personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
sepek
(male personal name)
"Star Trek Log One: Yesteryear" [Alan Dean Foster]
sev
(male personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
sfisth

"Corona" [Greg Bear]
s'haile

title of profound respect pertaining to acknowledgement of a high level of personal accomplishment and commanding presence to which one would properly pay homage.  The closest Terran equivalent would be the concept of a royalty that is not born but made - in fact, self-made.  In that sense it might be rendered "Lord" by one who speaks as equal and as "My Lord" by one who does not.

"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath]
shanaikahr
capital city on Vulcan
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
shatarr
type of poisonous Vulcan lizard
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
shath
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
silek
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
skaren
(personal name)
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
skep
(personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
snarth
quasi-intelligent mammalian predator of Vulcan
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath]
sochya
peace
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
sofek
(male personal name)
"Star Trek Log One: Yesteryear" [Alan Dean Foster]
sorel
(male personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
sotek (male personal name)
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
soton
(male personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
spelak
(male personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
spet
(personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
spyorna
a governing body perhaps of the Vulcan Science Institute?
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
sreil
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
srikh
(small denomination copper cash currency, penny?)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
stark
(male personal name)
"Star Trek Log One: Yesteryear" [Alan Dean Foster]
starok
(male personal name) "The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
s'task
(male personal name; famous disciple of Surak)
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
stef
(male personal name; father of Surak)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
stelen
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
stelin
(personal name) aVulcan whose writings adress themselves to the clarity of logical deduction.
"The Romulan Strategem" [Robert Greenberger]
storil
(male personal name)
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
storn
(male personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
strovadorz
philosopher
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
suvel
(personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
suvin
(female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
svaid
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
svonn
(male personal name) "The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]

T.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source
t'aimnu
(female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
t'aria
(female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
tasav
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
ta'valsh
place on Vulcan
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
tcha-besheh
the underliers (intelligences of the deep sand on Vulcan)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
tekav
(female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
tekeh
area on Vulcan
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
teleiw
(clan name?)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
tes
(male personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
theris
tea
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
t'hy'la
friend, brother, lover
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath]
thyvaj
asumi empathic mirroring exercise first developed by ancient warrior-brothers on Vulcan
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath0
tikh
a native grain-bearing grass (a Vulcan staple)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
t'khut
Vulcan's companion planet,  the female name form of the noun "watcher"; the eye that opens and closes (but that,
legend later said, always sees, and sees most and best in the dark)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
t'kosa
(female personal name)
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
t'kuht
Vulcan's sister planet (an eccentric orbit that brings it close to Vulcan every seven years;
there is also a 300 year cycle where it comes closer still)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
t'leia
(female personal name; mother of Surak)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
t'lie
{female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
t'madh
(female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
t'meheh
(personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
t'mir
(female personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
t'nie
(female personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
t'par
(personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
t'peyra
(female personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
t'pree
(female personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
t'prylla
(female personal name)
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
t'ra
(personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
t'raus
(female personal name)
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
trihr
a hard almost-black wood (which may be used in the construction of Vulcan harps)
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
trilya
type of marriage
"Corona" [Greg Bear]
t'rukh
Vulcan's tidally locked sister planet, it orbits at 149895.3579 Federation standard km (the name varies depending on the time of year)
"Sarek" [A.C.Crispen]
t'rukhemai
moon of t'rukh, in a low, fast moving orbit (lit: eye of the watcher)
"Sarek" [A.C.Crispen]
t'sai
(female personal name)
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
t'sel
(female personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
t'sey
(female personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
t'shevat
(female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
tshin
preditory animal on Vulcan which was once hunted
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
t'sia
(female personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
t'sura (female personal name) "The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]
t'thelaih
(female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
tu'khrev
regional capital on Vulcan
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
t'vareth
undisciplined cub, disobedient and subnormal whelp of an undesirable species.  not a term of endearment
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath]
t'vei
(female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
t'vel
(female personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
t'vet
the patron saint or goddess (it's not clear if she was a real person) of the warrior clans, the female force toward racial survival, she was perceived as protecting the warriors in their hunt for food and water to keep the women and children of a clan alive through the summer; there is only one active shrine still dedicated to the worship of T'Vet located at the foot of the l-langon mountains; T'Vet's followers believe in the basic argument that when the struggle is removed from life, the weak survive to propagate and racial strength is diluted.
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]
tviokh
neighbor (pejorative, it implies someone may live on the next piece of land but that you would prefer they were under it rather than on it)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
tzaled
the ultimate Vulcan level of loyalty in which one takes responsibility for the well-being of the other even over his protests
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath]
t'zan
(female personal name)
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah]

U.

Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation
Source
urekh
(ship name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]

V.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source 
vach
(personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
vakhen
one of the flying predators of the lesser mountains
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
va'ne'meLakht
a refuge built for sunstorm weather in Shi'Kahr (lit: "hiding from the Rage") although on the other side of the city
from the Academy, it is currently overseen by the Academy and used for the biggest lectures and meetings and
some ceremonial occassions
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
V'asumi
the sport/practice form of asumi in which strength may be restrained against a weaker opponent, but speed and skill must be used to train the other's full potential
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath]
velekh
(house name, "high house"?)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
v'kreeth
name of a Vulcan ship and title given to its commander by Humans
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath]
vrekatra
receptacle for holding a katra
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]

W.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation  Source 



Y.
Vulcan Word or Phrase Conjectured English Translation Source 
yehenik
(house name, "old house"?)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
yhri
faction, international Vulcan terrorist group
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
yie
little burrower
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
yiliw
(female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
yiluv
(female personal name)
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]
yiwa
peninsula - one of the largest markings on the near side of T'Khut,
it contains large crater from early matter-antimatter weapons testing
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane]


Vulcan
 Word or Phrase
Conjectured English Translation  Source 
zakal the fury, the desert storm
novel "The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard]


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Examples of Vulcan dialogue:

from "Spock's World" [Diane Duane] -

Hwath ta-jevehih tak rehelh kutukk'sheih nei ya 'ch'euvh


He' elef ka hij
Oh yes you do

Araigh 'tha takh-ruuh ne nehauu vesh mekhezh't-rrhew
                                           vibes

ekhwe'na meh kroykah tevesh

Mene sakkhet ur-seveh


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from "Corona" [Greg Bear] -

spoken at the beginning of the ka nifoor ritual:
pstha    na  sochya olojhica, sfisth inoor Gracka?
search         peace

pstha    na  sochya olojhica, sfisth noor numkwa Gracka?
search         peace