Psipi

Psipi is a fictional language created for worldbuilding and linguistic demonstration. It is described as an agglutinative, head-final language with a rich case system and flexible clause structure. The term appears in internet conlang resources as an example of typological variation.

Origins and naming: Psipi’s name is a constructed sequence intended to sound distinctive rather than to reflect a real language. In the imagined setting, Psipi is said to have arisen on the Psipian Isles, a coastal archipelago with diverse linguistic contact.

Phonology and writing: The language is described as having 18 consonants and 5 vowels. Some dialects feature vowel harmony. Syllables are typically CV or CVC. The writing system is Latin-based with diacritics to mark vowel quality and stress.

Grammar: Psipi typically uses subject–object–verb order in neutral statements. It relies on suffixal morphology for case, number, and mood; adjectives follow nouns; nouns carry several cases such as nominative, accusative, and dative. Verbs inflect for aspect and evidential mood, and postposed particles mark definiteness and aspect.

Usage and reception: Within conlang communities, Psipi is cited as a teaching example of an agglutinative structure and typological variation. It is described in tutorials and language-sketch resources but has no real-world speech community or corpus.

See also: constructed language, conlang, language typology, phonology.