biuru

Biuru is a fictional language created for world-building and speculative fiction. In its canonical setting, Biuru is spoken by a community called the Biuri in the highlands of the fictional continent of Arunea. It is described as a language isolate with no proven relatives.

Scholars in the lore place the number of native speakers at a few thousand, with intergenerational transmission variable. The language is presented as endangered, with revival efforts led by community groups and fictional linguists integrated into the narrative.

Linguistic features described for Biuru include agglutinative morphology and a head-final, SOV (subject–object–verb) sentence structure. It marks evidentiality and mood through affixes, and employs postposed case markers. Pronouns distinguish inclusive and exclusive first person, with a rich system of demonstratives.

Phonology is described as relatively small, with about 17 consonants and 5 vowels. Stress is penultimate and vowel harmony is not reported. The writing system is known as Biuru Script, a syllabary used in ceremonial and literary texts, with occasional use of Latin orthography by outsiders.

In the fictional world, Biuru encodes cultural knowledge about the Biuri’s history, landscape, and oral poetry. Dialects arise from mountainous isolation, and there are ongoing fictional language-preservation programs. The entry of Biuru in reference works reflects its status as a constructed language within a shared world.