Pomry

Pomry is a constructed language (conlang) created for the fictional world of Lyria by linguist Mara Venn in 2004. It is spoken by the Pomran, an island community in the southern archipelago of Lyrian lore. The language is designed to encode social relations and politeness, with distinct verb forms and pronouns that reflect the speaker’s status and relationship to the listener.

Phonology and grammar: Pomry has 26 phonemes, consisting of 18 consonants and 8 vowels, including a pair of rounded vowels uncommon in neighboring languages. It uses an SOV (subject–object–verb) base order and is an agglutinative language, employing a rich system of affixes for tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality, and case. Nouns have three grammatical genders and four cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive), with definite and indefinite markers. Adjectives normally follow the noun, and adjectives agree in definiteness and number. Pronouns encode formality and reciprocal relations and are often clitics attached to the verb.

Writing system: Pomry is written primarily with a Latin-based alphabet augmented by diacritics; a separate syllabary is used in ceremonial inscriptions within the fiction. Long vowels may be marked with macrons, and palatalized consonants with diacritics.

Usage and reception: In the fictional setting, Pomry is taught in schools on the Pomran islands and used in official discourse as well as literature and media. It has a small but dedicated community of learners and translators among fans of the world of Lyria.