Tikrumas

Tikrumas is a term used in speculative fiction and worldbuilding to refer to a fictional language family associated with the imagined Tikrum people. In many settings, Tikrumas encompasses multiple related languages or dialects that share a common ancestry, collectively called Tikrumic languages.

Linguistic features commonly attributed to Tikrumas in fan-created material include an agglutinative grammar with extensive affixation, SOV word order, and vowel harmony. Phonology often includes a glottal stop and a range of velar and palatal consonants; writing systems vary by author.

In the fictional world, Tikruma speakers inhabit a highland plateau on the continent's eastern edge. The language is described as dialectally diverse, with Northern and Southern Tikrumas as major varieties; some communities report strong language vitality, others describe endangerment.

Historically, Tikrumas is presented as ancient, with proto-Tikrumic reconstructed from a corpus of mythic inscriptions. Reconstruction often serves to explore historical contact with neighboring languages and to illustrate cultural exchange.

Within worldbuilding communities, Tikrumas provides a template for realistic language construction. Critics caution that over-detailed fictional linguistics can resemble real-world languages too closely if not grounded in coherent culture and history.