Dritok language

Dritok is a constructed language, created by Donald Boozer in 2007. [1] It is an artistic and fictional language and is spoken in Drushek.

Phonology

Dritok oral phonemes
(with Latin transcription and Umod approximations)[2]
Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Retro­flex Velar/uvular Glottal
Nareal fricative m̥͋ ⟨n⟩
(n)
Nasal trill ʩ ⟨k'⟩
(ŋ)
Pulmonic plosives p ⟨p⟩
(p)		 t ⟨t⟩
(t)		 q ~ k ⟨q⟩
(k)
Fricatives ɸ ~ f ⟨f⟩
(f)		 s ⟨s⟩
(s)		 ç ⟨z⟩
(ʒ)		 ʂ ⟨c⟩
(ʃ)
Lateral fricatives ɬ ⟨l⟩
(θ)
Semivowels ◌ʷ ⟨w⟩
()		 t͜r̥ ⟨r⟩
(tr)		 χ ~ x ⟨x⟩
(x ~ ə)
χʷ ~ xʷ ⟨xw⟩
(x ~ u)		 h ~ x ⟨h⟩
(h ~ ə)
hʷ ~ xʷ ⟨hw⟩
(h ~ ɔ)
Ejective plosives pʼ ⟨p'⟩
(b)		 tʼ ⟨t'⟩
(d)		 qʼ ~ kʼ ⟨q'⟩
(ɡ)
Ejective affricates t͜sʼ ⟨s'⟩
(t͜ʃ)		 c͜çʼ ⟨z'⟩
(d͜ʒ)
Buccal trill ↀt͜r̥ ⟨r'⟩
(dr)
Click consonants ʘ ⟨p*⟩
(pɔk)		 ǃ̪ ⟨t*⟩
(sɪk)
ǃ̪ʷ ⟨t*w⟩
(sɔk)		 ǃ ~ ǂ ⟨z*⟩
(tɪk)
ǃʷ ~ ǂʷ ⟨z*w⟩
(tɔk)		 ʞ ⟨k*⟩
(ŋɔk)
Velopharyngeal ʩʷ↓ (Ꙫ) ⟨o⟩
(no)

References

  1. ↑ "In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent".
  2. ↑ Boozer, Don. "Dritok". Kryslan Wiki. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
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