Dryŋmyṅ

Dryŋmyṅ is a fictional language by Polka Dot.

Phonology

Some characteristics of Dryŋmyṅ include its wealth of consonants and sounds somewhat similar to Arabic and the Salishan languages of North America, as well as a vowel system resembling those found in many Slavic languages, as well as Guaraní and Comanche.

Consonants

The Dryŋmyṅ language has 72 consonants depicted below in IPA.

Dryŋmyṅ Consonant System

		Bilabial	Dental	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	voiceless	m̥ m̥ˤ	n̥ n̥ˤ	ŋ̊ ŋ̊ˤ
	voiced	m mˤ	n nˤ	ŋ ŋˤ
Plosive	voiceless	p pˤ pʼ pˤʼ	t tˤ tʼ tˤʼ	k kˤ kʼ kˤʼ	q qˤ qʼ qˤʼ	ʔ ʔˤ
	voiced	b bˤ ɓ ɓˤ	d dˤ ɗ ɗˤ	g gˤ ɠ ɠˤ	ɢ ɢˤ ʛ ʛˤ
Fricative	voiceless		s sˤ ʃ ʃˤ	x xˤ	ħ ħˤ	h hˤ
	voiced		z zˤ ʒ ʒˤ	ɣ ɣˤ	ʕ ʕˤ [ʕː]

Vowels

Dryŋmyṅ Vowel System

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː	ɨ ɨː	u uː
Mid	e eː		o oː
Open		a aː

Orthography

/m̥ m n̥ n ŋ̊ ŋ/ <‌ṁ m ṅ n ŋ̇ ŋ‌>
/p pʼ b ɓ t tʼ d ɗ k kʼ g ɠ q qʼ ɢ ʛ ʔ/ <‌p ph b bh t th d dh c ch g gh k kh q qh h‌>
/s z ʃ ʒ x ɣ ħ ʕ h/ <‌s z š ž c̱ ḡ ḵ q̄ ẖ‌>
/r̥ r ɬ ɮ/ <‌ṛ r ḷ l‌>

/i ɨ u e o a/ <‌i y u e o a‌>
/ˤi ˤɨ ˤu ˤe ˤo ˤa/ <‌ï ÿ ü ë ö ä‌>
/iː ɨː uː eː oː aː/ <‌í ý ú é ó á‌>
/ˤiː ˤɨː ˤuː ˤeː ˤoː ˤaː/ <‌i̋ y̋ ű e̋ ő a̋‌>

/Cˤ#/ <C'>

Parts of speech

Nouns

Dryŋmyṅ nouns are classified into two classes: the "human", and the "non-human". Proper names of persons or gods, kinship terms, terms for occupations, terms for tools are classified as "Human". Plants, animals, all kinds of objects, natural geographical phenomena, abstract nouns are all classified as "non-human".