Viayan
Viayan is a term used in fictional ethnolinguistic and world-building contexts to describe the people, language, and culture associated with the Viaya region. In narrative and encyclopedia-style treatments, Viayans are depicted as a river-basin community with long-standing agricultural practices, craft traditions, and a distinctive social organization centered on kinship networks and communal labor.
The Viaya region is imagined as a lowland river valley with surrounding uplands, forests, and tributaries that
The Viayan language is typically described as agglutinative with a subject–object–verb (SOV) order. It features suffixing
In-world histories place the earliest Viayan communities in the Viaya Basin several centuries ago, evolving from
In many modern entries, Viayan communities are portrayed as hosting language revival and documentation efforts, aiming