langere

Langere is a constructed language created for use in speculative fiction and experimental linguistics. It is spoken by a fictional community in the Langere Archipelago, a maritime region described in recent fiction and online world-building projects. The language is designed to illustrate how a language might balance clarity of grammar with expressive nuance.

It is primarily analytic with an agglutinative component in verb morphology. The basic word order is subject–verb–object. Nouns do not inflect for gender; plural is indicated by a plural marker on the determiner or noun. Verbs mark aspect and mood with affixes; tense is indicated by particles preceding the verb. There is some cross-linguistic influence from neighboring languages in the fictional region.

Langere uses five vowel phonemes and about 15 consonants, with phonotactics favoring open syllables. Stress tends to fall on the penultimate syllable. Consonants include p, t, k, s, l, m, n, r, and glides y and w. Consonant clusters are limited, and certain suffixes may trigger phonotactic alternations.

It uses a Latin-based alphabet with diacritics to mark long vowels and tone in some texts. A separate syllabary is sometimes used in ceremonial inscriptions within the fiction.

Langere arose in the early 21st century as a conlang project by language enthusiasts in the fictional world. A reference grammar and dictionary have been published within the community. Today, speakers are primarily hobbyists and writers, with small online communities and occasional usage in fan media.