Tikrinu

Tikrinu is a fictional language created for worldbuilding and speculative fiction. In its accompanying lore, Tikrinu is spoken by the Tikrinu people, who inhabit a coastal archipelago in the northern seas of the imagined continent of Verdas. The term Tikrinu also appears as the ethnolinguistic label used by characters within the stories and linguistic texts that describe this world.

Linguistically, Tikrinu is described as an agglutinative language with a predominantly SVO (subject–verb–object) order. It relies on suffixal morphology to express tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality, and agreement between verb phrases and their subjects or objects. Nouns carry suffixes for number and definiteness, and a limited set of case-like markers indicates grammatical function within noun phrases. The phonology is characterized by a moderate inventory of consonants and vowels, including a small set of front rounded vowels, with a distinction between tense and lax vowels that can influence affix pronunciation through vowel harmony in some dialects.

The writing system is a syllabary, with optional diacritics used to indicate tone and stress. In fictional texts, Tikrinu is often transmitted through oral tradition, ceremonial poetry, and navigational lore, though scholars in the worldbuilding corpus have produced grammars and lexicons for fans and fellow conlangers. Dialogues and songs in Tikrinu are commonly cited as showing regional variation across islands, reflecting differences in trade routes and inter-island relations.

Notes: Tikrinu is a constructed, fictional concept and has no real-world linguistic or historical standing beyond its use in imaginative works.