Arvellaan

Arvellaan is a constructed language (conlang) created for use in science fiction and fantasy media and by fan communities. It was developed to accompany the fictional world of Arvellia and to provide a consistent medium for dialogue, lore, and worldbuilding.

Phonology and grammar: Arvellaan features a modest phoneme inventory with five vowel phonemes and a range of consonants similar to many European languages. The language generally favors syllable structures of CV or CVC and uses stress on the penultimate syllable. The basic word order is subject–verb–object. It uses an agglutinative morphology: suffixes mark tense, aspect, mood, number, and case; pronouns distinguish person and number; adjectives follow nouns. Noun phrases include demonstratives and articles in some dialects, with optional noun incorporation in more elaborate constructions.

Orthography and usage: The standard writing system is a Latin-based alphabet with diacritics to indicate vowel quality and phonemic length. A separate in-world script is depicted in artifacts and fan art. In practice, Arvellaan is taught and used in online guides, dictionaries, and fan media, including role-playing games and fan fiction.

History: Arvellaan emerged from a collective design process starting in the early 2010s, with later expansions and community-led grammars and lexicons. It has been described in reference grammars and online resources, and its vocabulary continues to grow through collaborative projects.

See also: conlang, worldbuilding, fictional language.