Lannasta

Lannasta is a fictional language created for world-building in contemporary fantasy fiction and is sometimes used in linguistic exercises by fans. It is described as the language of the Lannasti people who inhabit the Lannasta Archipelago, a coastal region in the northern seas of the fictional continent of Eldara. In the canonical writings within the setting, Lannasta is presented as a language isolate with a rich oral tradition and a developing literary tradition.

Lannasta is described as primarily an agglutinative language with a subject–object–verb base in prose, though it appears in verb-initial forms in certain poetic contexts. Its phonology features five vowels and a consonant inventory that includes plosives p, t, k, b, d, g, an affricate ts, fricatives s and z, and a set of liquids and nasals. Stress is typically penultimate. The writing system is an alphabetic script called Lannastan, with a historical lineage claimed to derive from a prior runic-inspired script.

In its cultural context, Lannasta encodes social relations in morphology: pronouns distinguish inclusive and exclusive we, and honorifics mark speaker stance in conversations. Adjectives follow nouns and agree in number and definiteness through affixation. The language features extensive serial verb constructions and a rich system of evidential markers.