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.
| 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
| 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".
Therefore all nouns which refer to human beings or gods are human, while all other nouns are non-human.
