Dritok language

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

Phonology

Dritok oral phonemes
(with Latin transcription and Umod approximations)
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.