eevne

Eevne is a constructed language developed for fictional worldbuilding and used in speculative fiction, games, and collaborative storytelling. It is designed to lend historical depth to its speakers and to express social nuance, hierarchy, and tradition with regular rules that support learning and translation. The language emphasizes clear case marking, tense and mood distinctions, and a consistent phonology that remains pronounceable for learners.

Phonology and script: Eevne has a modest inventory of sounds: vowels a, e, i, o, u; consonants p, t, k, m, n, s, l, r, f, h, and a few glides. Syllables typically conform to CV or CVC structures; stress falls on the penultimate syllable. The primary writing system is a syllabary used in in-world inscriptions, supplemented by a Latin transliteration for learning materials, with a separate runic-inspired script found in ancient texts.

Grammar: The basic word order is subject–object–verb. Nouns inflect for case (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative) and number; adjectives follow nouns. Verbs mark aspect and mood with affixes, and include evidential markers that encode the source of information. Eevne is largely agglutinative, accumulating affixes on a stem rather than relying on internal stem changes. Pronouns distinguish inclusive and exclusive we and formal/informal you.

Lexicon and usage: Core vocabulary centers on family, trade, sea, weather, and ceremony, with extensions for technology and ritual life. The language supports polite and ceremonial registers, and discourse particles manage focus and precision in conversation.

Speakers and status: Eevne is described as the language of the fictional Eevni people and is used in literature, games, and media within its fictional world. In real-world communities, it serves as a subject of study for language creators and conlang enthusiasts, with community-maintained dictionaries, grammars, and text corpora.