Nojmean

Nojmean is a fictional language created for the Nojar world, a speculative fiction setting used in contemporary novels and media. Designed as a constructed language, Nojmean is intended to convey cultural identity, social structure, and geographic variation within the Nojar civilization.

The language was conceived by linguist and author Dr. Asha Renner in 2010 as part of a broader worldbuilding project. It has since been expanded through collaborative work by writers, editors, and fan contributors, and is described in the Nojar Companion and the Nojar Dictionary (2014).

Nojmean typically follows a subject–verb–object base order. Nouns inflect for number and case; verbs encode aspect and evidential mood. The phonology includes around 22 consonants and five vowels, with syllable structures of CV and CVC and a preference for final vowels. The language uses demonstratives and pronoun clitics attached to verbs and nouns to mark definiteness and referential distance.

Nojmean is represented in a syllabic writing system known as Noji Script, used in inscriptions and official texts within the Nojar canon, while a Latin transliteration is common in fan materials. Dialectal variation exists across regions within the Nojar world, though standardized forms are described in scholarly resources.

Among conlang communities and worldbuilding scholars, Nojmean is studied for its design principles, sociolinguistic function, and its role in conveying cultural motifs in the Nojar narrative.