Dwendish

Pictish is a language isolate spoken in the British Isles by members of the Thurse phenotype. It is in a sprachbund with the Celtic languages and shares features such as VSOX word order and initial consonant mutation.

Phonology

Orthography

Pictish is written in a Latin script. The letters "b", "c", "e", "j", "o", "p", "s", "v", "w", "y" and "z" are not used.

"a" = /a/

"d" = /ð/

"dh" = /θ/

"f" = /w/

"fh" = /xʷ/

"g" = /j/

"gh" = /ç/

"h" = /h/

"i" = /i/

"k" = /k/

"l" = /l/

"l" = /ɬ/

"m" = /m/

"mq" = /ŋɡʷ/

"n" = /n/

"ng" = /ɲ/

"nk" = /ŋɡ/

"nr" = /ŋ/

"nt" = /nd/

"nx" = /ɲɟ/

"q" = /kʷ/

"r" = /ɣ/

"rh" = /x/

"t" = /t/

"u" = /u/

"x" = /c/

Note:

The glottal stop only occurs word-initially and is not written. Its mutated forms are written with an intervening hyphen eg:

amik = pebbles (radical)

h-amik = pebbles (lenition)

m-amik = pebbles (eclipsis)

k-amik = pebbles (provection)

Consonants

NASAL: /n, ɲ, ŋ, m/

PLOSIVE:

-surd: /t, c, k, kʷ/

-prenasal: /nd, ɲɟ, ŋɡ, ŋɡʷ/

FRICATIVE: /θ, ɬ, ç, x, xʷ/

CONTINUANT:

-liquid: /l, ɣ/

-approximant: /ð, j, w/

GLOTTAL:

-stop: /ʔ/

-resonance: /h/

Vowels

HIGH: /i, u/

LOW: /a/