calzavi

Calzavi is a constructed language developed for the fictional setting of Calzavia. It serves as the native tongue of the Calzavi people and appears in novels, role-playing games, and fan media. The language is part of the imagined Calzavic language family, a small branch within a broader fictional linguistic landscape.

Phonology of Calzavi includes vowels a, e, i, o, u and a consonant inventory that features p, t, k, m, n, s, l, r, h plus j (y) and w. Stress is typically placed on the penultimate syllable. The system is not tonal.

Calzavi is largely agglutinative. Nouns mark case and number with suffixes, and verbs encode aspect and mood with affixes. The language has no grammatical gender. The basic word order is subject–object–verb, with postpositions rather than prepositions. Relative clauses attach to their head noun via a nominal suffix.

The script, called Calzav, is an alphabet with Latin influences. It uses diacritics to indicate vowel length and certain consonant features. In practice, many texts are rendered in Latin transliteration for accessibility.

Calzavi was created by a community of conlangers beginning in the 2010s and has since accumulated grammars, dictionaries, and learning aids. Within its fictional world, Calzavi is the official language of administration, education, and public discourse in Calzavia, with regional dialects. Among fans, it is studied for linguistic detail and used in fan fiction and games.