Today marks a strange and delightful milestone: a completely new human language steps into the world.

Vunakish, The International Language of Friendship is now officially born.

It arrives with a purpose- quiet, steady, and universal. Not to replace the languages we love, but to build a bridge between them. Not to pull the world toward any one culture, but to offer every culture a recognizable piece of itself.

Vunakish is the language of international friendship: a tool designed for clarity, mutual respect, and relationship.

And today is its birthday.

What Vunakish Is

Vunakish is an auxiliary language built for the entire world’s linguistic landscape, not just a corner of it. Its design principles are simple:

  • globally pronounceable
  • grammatically regular
  • expressive at every level
  • recognizable to speakers across continents
  • unashamedly aimed at human connection, not ideology

Where most conlangs, including Esperanto, lean structurally or aesthetically toward one region, Vunakish was built from the ground up to represent six major linguistic regions and dozens of subgroups. Its vocabulary draws directly from a defined sampling of 160 languages and blends roots in a controlled, measurable way to maximize global recognizability.

The method is as intentional as the purpose.

Why It Exists

Languages carry worlds inside them- histories, identities, the emotional texture of a people. They rarely meet each other halfway.

Vunakish steps into that gap. It is built so a Hindi speaker, a Yoruba speaker, a Mandarin speaker, and a Portuguese speaker can all look at a page of Vunakish and immediately recognize real pieces of their linguistic DNA. Not as a gimmick, but as a mathematical and structural design goal, tracked word by word through a recognition-scoring system.

The language’s core idea is simple:
Friendship begins with recognition.

When people see something familiar in a new tongue, walls come down. Curiosity turns into connection.

Built for the Whole World

The blueprint behind Vunakish is unusually ambitious. Every word is sourced through a multi-stage comparison across:

  • 4 mega-groups of languages (European, African, South Asian, East Asian)
  • 2 bridge groups (West Asian, Southeast Asian)
  • 1 “all others” group (Oceania + Indigenous Americas + others)
  • 24 subgroups representing 160 languages worldwide

A word like tree becomes Darshuk only after roots like shu (Sino-Tibetan), arb- (Romance), and widespread d-k patterns across regions are blended carefully to preserve recognizability without breaking phonotactics.

This isn’t randomness. It’s design with guardrails.

The result is a lexicon where any given speaker, anywhere, should understand roughly 5–15% of the vocabulary at sight.
That is unheard of in global auxiliary languages.

A Grammar Meant for Learners

Vunakish grammar is built around predictability and transparency.

  • Strict SVO word order
  • Regular verbs (no irregular forms, ever)
  • Three core tenses (o/e/u) that function both as suffixes and as standalone particles
  • Stative and dynamic copulas to clarify meaning without clutter
  • Infinitives always end in -en
  • Adjectives always end in -a
  • Nouns always end in a consonant
  • Zero ambiguity between root classes
  • No drift toward Eurocentric conjugation patterns

The language is engineered so beginners never have to guess, memorize exceptions, or fight hidden rules. Everything important is spelled out cleanly and consistently.

Even the intentionality system: We-, Wu-, Wi-, Wa-, Wo-, lets speakers specify voluntary action, obligation, attempt, accident, or inability with a single predictable vowel shift.

The aim is expressiveness without chaos.

A Script Anyone Can Learn

Vunakish uses the standard Latin alphabet with two letters removed (q, y) and strict vowel and syllable rules. Every root follows predictable shapes. Every imported word must fit the phonotactics perfectly—no exceptions. This prevents drift, dialect fragmentation, and orthographic entropy that plagues many young conlangs.

A global project needs a script anyone can type on any keyboard. Vunakish delivers exactly that.

Why the Purple Star?

The emblem of Vunakish is a purple five-pointed star inside a white circle, set on a purple field.

Its origin is personal to the creator.

Five points for the creator’s five sons.
Purple for his daughter named Violet.
A family symbol that grew into a cultural one.

In a wider interpretation, the five points represent the five populated world regions, all meeting in the center- unity without uniformity. The circle represents the shared world on which we all walk.

The symbol didn’t begin as branding. It began as family. And then it stayed.

Where Vunakish Goes From Here

This site, Vunakish.org, serves as the official birthplace of the language. The early stage will focus on three pillars:

  1. The About Page: the philosophy, origin, and purpose
  2. The Lexicon: updated continually as new words pass the recognition threshold
  3. The Changelog: documenting how the language grows in public view

As the language matures, the site will expand into course materials, audio, example texts, community tools, and eventually a complete reference grammar.

Vunakish is built to grow in the open.

An Invitation

Every language begins with a small circle of speakers who believe in its purpose.

If you’re here on day one, that circle includes you.

Explore the grammar. Try a few words. See what feels familiar. See what surprises you. Notice where your own linguistic background shows up in the roots.

Vunakish was built for the world.
Today it enters the world.
And now we see what the world does with it.

Vunakish. The language of friendship.
Born December 4th, 2025.