Cyrillickirjoitusjärjestelmän

Cyrillickirjoi is a constructed language created for a fictional world, where it functions as a regional lingua franca among river- and coastal communities. It is presented as a living, evolving system with a distinct writing tradition and a history tied to trade, ritual, and governance within the narrative setting. The language is designed to reflect contact between diverse groups and to illustrate cultural exchange across the imagined geography.

Phonology and writing are described as closely linked in Cyrillickirjoi. The phoneme inventory emphasizes five vowels and a set of consonants common to many languages in the world, with a preference for open syllables and occasional glottal stops. The stress pattern is typically fixed on the penultimate syllable, and affixes often carry tonal or aspectual cues. The writing system is Cyrillic-inspired but adapted for syllabic representation, using a syllabary of base glyphs plus diacritics to indicate tone, mood, and aspect. It is written left to right, and works in tandem with a rich manuscript tradition within the story.

Grammar in Cyrillickirjoi is described as agglutinative, with roots combined with suffixes to express tense, aspect, evidentiality, and other grammatical categories. The basic word order is subject–object–verb, and modifiers such as adjectives appear before the nouns they modify. Postpositions replace prepositions, and pronouns may be elided in context. Noun compounds and verb formations are common, creating precise terms for kinship, natural phenomena, and navigational concepts.

In its fictional universe, Cyrillickirjoi has a documented corpus of texts, inscriptions, and oral histories. Within the narrative, it serves as a vehicle for character identity and cultural memory, while in fan communities it is often studied through fan grammars, dictionaries, and translation projects.