Dahoukki

Dahoukki Dŭhoug
Pronounced:	Native: /də.hok/ Anglicized: /də.hoʊ̯k.kiː/
Timeline and Universe:	Alternate Earth
Species:	Human
Spoken:	Carnassus
Writing system:	Syllabary
Genealogy:	Language Isolate
Typology
Morphological type:	Agglutinative
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order:	SOV
Credits
Creator:	Thrice Xandvii | ✎
Created:	December 2015

Phonology

Dŭhoug has __ consonants and __ distinct vowels.

Consonants

	Labial	Coronal	"Palatal"	Dorsal
Nasal	m /m/	n /n/	ń /ɲ/	ŋ (ng) /ŋ/
Plosive	b /b/	t /t/		k /k/
		d /d/		g /g/
Fricative	v /β/ ~ [ɸ]	s /s/	ś /ʃ/	h /x/ ~ [ɣ]
		z /z/	ź /ʒ/
Affricate	bv /b͜β/ ~ [p͜ɸ]	ts /t͜s/	tś /t͜ʃ/
		dz /d͜z/	dź /d͜ʒ/
Approximant		l /ɺ/		ll (ļ) /ʟ/

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i /i/	a /ə/	u /ɯ/
Middle	e /e/		o /ɔ/
Low	ạ /æ/ ~ [a]

	Syllabic
Approximant	ŗ (r) /ɹ̩/ ~ [ɚ]

Script

The native script is called _______. This script is substantially similar to the Japanese script, hiragana.

	–	n	t	k	h	s	x	λ	z	tλ	l	w	q
a
i
u
æ
ao

Examples

The following are a series of words and phrases written in Dahoukki script.

Lexicon

—For a full list of words in Dŭhoug, see: Lexicon.

Since almost all of the words in Dahoukki are derived directly from modern Japanese, any word can be created when needed by running the word through sound changes and making some accommodations for changes in meaning.

Sound Changes

See: Sound Changes for full list of sound changes from Japanese.