| Dritok | |
|---|---|
| /t͜r̥ʼǂʷ/ | |
| Created by | Donald Boozer |
| Date | 2007 |
| Setting and usage | Kryslan |
| Ethnicity | Drushek /t͜r̥ʷʼʂq/ |
| Purpose | |
| Sources | A priori language |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Dritok is a constructed language (conlang) created by Donald Boozer in 2007.[1] Boozer was Secretary (2012–2015) and Librarian (2009–2013) of the Language Creation Society.[2]
Dritok is in the artistic language genre of conlangs, specifically a fictional language. It is spoken by the Drushek, a species residing in the mountains of the fictional continent of Kryslan. The Drushek are large-eared, long-tailed leaping sciurine sapients with no vocal cords, who value solitude and quietness.[3] The Drushek are culturally and linguistically homogeneous, but there are other languages spoken on Kryslan, including Umod and Elasin, by two other sentient species,.[4]
In Dritok, the name of the language is /t͜r̥ʼǃʷ/, with a labialized click at the end. 'Dritok' is its pronunciation in Umod, which renders the click as tɔk.[5]
- ^ "In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent".
- ^ LCS Officers & Directors page
- ^ Arika Okrent (2010) In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, p. 289
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Michael Norman (2019-03-28) [2008-06-06]. "Inventing own language, Don Boozer opened up another world". cleveland.com. Retrieved 2021-04-23.