Alango

Alango is a constructed language developed for a fictional universe, serving as the traditional tongue of the Alango people who inhabit a coastal archipelago in the northern seas. It is described in companion materials and in-universe texts as the primary medium for daily communication, law, storytelling, and ritual discourse within that setting. As a created language, Alango exists to support world-building and character interaction rather than to document a real speech community.

Classification and features. Alango is designed as an agglutinative language with subject–object–verb order. Its morphology relies heavily on suffixal affixes to encode tense, aspect, mood, number, and case. Nouns can bear case markers that indicate subject, object, and possessor relations, while verbs carry tense and aspect information through affixes and clitics. Adjectives typically follow nouns, and demonstratives and numerals interact with noun phrases to signal definiteness and quantity. The language emphasizes a clear, regular patterning that helps it function as a distinct, learnable system within the fictional setting.

Phonology and writing. The phonemic inventory includes five vowels and a consonant set designed to be pronounceable across speakers of various fictional backgrounds. Stress tends to fall on the penultimate syllable. Alango uses a Latin-based writing system with diacritics to indicate vowel length and some phonetic distinctions, supplementing the orthography with diacritical marks in scholarly editions and fan resources.

Usage and reception. Alango has a dedicated grammar overview and bilingual dictionaries published as part of its world-building materials. It has an active fan and conlanger community that explores its structures and vocabulary, though it remains a fictional construct rather than a living language. See also: constructed languages, conlangs.