| abstract | - Riktas (/ˈɾik.tas/) is a small language family or dialect continuum spoken primarily in the archipelago of Sumpa Rammay. The language of trade and governance in the islands, described here as the standard variety, is a dialect most often called Riktas Rammay. The Speakers of Riktas are a culture of human beings who settled in Sumpa Rammay after crossing the ocean along a now-forgotten route from a continental landmass far to the west. Legend has it that they were forced to flee their original homeland by a nameless doom that was spreading across the continent, but ancient taboos against speaking of the time before the migration have led to most of the details being forgotten. The people usually identify themselves by a variety of local place names, or else refer to themselves simply as nu, "people" or "human beings." When differentiating themselves and their fellow Riktas speakers from the members of other cultural and linguistic groups, particularly the indiginous ʔulili speakers (called 'ikrakatrazmi, "those who do not have names"), they most commonly use the term Karikuwus, "people from the west" or "west wind people."
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