kasaansa

Kasaansa is a fictional language created for use in speculative fiction and linguistic demonstrations. It is a constructed language (conlang) designed to illustrate how a language can encode meaning through morphology, syntax, and phonology in an imagined culture.

Linguistic features include an agglutinative morphology with extensive affixation on verbs and nouns. The basic word order is subject–object–verb (SOV). Kasaansa employs vowel harmony, a moderate consonant inventory, and suffixal case marking. The pronoun system distinguishes inclusive and exclusive “we,” and evidential markers indicate the speaker’s certainty or whether a statement is quoted.

In the fictional world, Kasaansa is spoken by the island-dwelling Kasaans, whose oral tradition centers on storytelling and ritual chants. It functions in naming, diplomacy, and customary law, with different registers for everyday speech and ceremonial speech.

In linguistic and world-building communities, kasaansa is cited as an example of conlang construction, illustrating how phonology, morphology, and sociolinguistic context interact in a fictional setting.