Rook [DLC]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersRook is spoken by a population of 7,200 in Ekevia.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Rook
Rook (Dluoc) is a language spoken in Ekevia, by only a few thousand people. It used to be much more widespread, but has in recent years declined.
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Latest vocabulary
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | [m̥]1 | m | [n]2 | [ŋ]3 | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | [b]4 | t | d | k | [g]5 | ||||||||
| Fricative | f | [v]6 | (θ) | (ð)7 | s | z | ʃ | [ʒ]8 | [x]9 | [ɣ]10 | h | [ɦ]11 | ||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Approximant | [ɹ]12 | |||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /m/
- before /t/ or /d/, allophone of /m/
- before /k/ or /g/, allophone of /m/
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /f/
- allophone of /θ/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /h/
- allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i | [y]1 | [ɯ]2 | u | ||||||
| Near-close | ɪ | [ʏ]3 | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e | [ø]4 | [ɤ]5 | o | ||||||
| Mid | ə | |||||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | [œ]6 | ʌ | [ɔ]7 | ||||||
| Open | ɑ | [ɒ]8 | ||||||||
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /ɪ/
- allophone of /e/
- allophone of /o/
- allophone of /ɛ/
- allophone of /ʌ/
- allophone of /ɑ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Rook. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 RookOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| Aa/ɑ/, [ɒ] | Cc/k/ | Dd/d/ | DL dl/r/, [ɹ] | Ee/ɛ/, [œ] | EA ea/e/, [ø] | EU eu/ə/ | Ff/f/, [v] | Hh/h/, [ɣ], [ɦ], [x] | Ii/ɪ/, [ʏ] | IE ie/i/, [y] | Kk/k/, [g] |
| Ll/l/ | Mm/m/, [ŋ]1, [n]2, [m̥] | Oo/ʌ/, [ɔ] | OU ou/o/, [ɤ] | Pp/p/, [b] | PL pl/ʃ/, [ʒ] | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TL tl/θ/3, [ð]4 | Uu/u/, [ɯ] | UO uo/ʊ/ | Zz/z/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- before /k/ or /g/
- before /t/ or /d/
- loan words only
- loan words only
Additional Notes/k/ is written as ⟨c⟩ word-finally, and as ⟨k⟩ otherwise.
