kgy

Kgy is a constructed language created for a fictional universe. It is spoken by the Kgy, a population living in the northern highlands of the continent of Lyria, appearing in novels, games, and a companion grammar guide. The language is morphologically rich, with agglutinative word formation and an evidential system that marks how the speaker learned or perceived information.

Phonology: Kgy has 23 consonants, including a uvular fricative and a glottal stop, and five vowels participating in vowel harmony. Stress is lexical and predictable.

Grammar: The basic word order is subject–object–verb in simple clauses, with extensive verb serialization and participial modifiers. Nouns carry case (nominative, accusative, dative) and number, while adjectives agree with the nouns they modify. Verbs inflect for tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality.

Writing system: The Kgy script is a featural syllabary of about 60 signs encoding syllables; it is commonly written left to right. Diacritics indicate tense, aspect, and mood.

Lexicon and culture: The vocabulary emphasizes seafaring, astronomy, and trade, with several hundred loanwords from neighboring languages in the canon. Dialects vary in phonology and vocabulary, with a formal register used for ceremonial speech.

In fan resources, Kgy is documented through grammars, dictionaries, and learning materials. It remains one of several constructed languages in its fictional universe, illustrating language design as a tool for world-building.