sayidir

Sayidir is a constructed language developed for a fictional world used in speculative fiction and language-creation communities. It is described as the language of the Sayidiran people, a maritime civilization in the southern archipelago of a fictional region. The name Sayidir is often interpreted within the lore as meaning “the spoken word,” reflecting its role as a symbol of communication and cultural identity.

Phonology and writing: Sayidir has five vowel phonemes and a consonant inventory that includes stops, nasals, fricatives, liquids, and a glottal stop. It features vowel harmony and allows consonant clusters of moderate length. The language is commonly written with a Latin-based alphabet adapted to its phonemes, though a ceremonial syllabary is also described in some texts.

Grammar: The language is primarily analytic but with an agglutinative tendency in verb morphology. Its basic sentence structure is subject–object–verb, with postpositions rather than prepositions. Noun phrases show a case-like marking system, and verbs carry a range of affixes expressing tense, aspect, mood, and evidential source. A notable feature is an evidential system that encodes direct knowledge, inference, or reported information directly on the verb.

Usage and variation: In its canonical lore, Sayidir functions as a lingua franca among coastal communities and ritual circles. Dialects vary in pronunciation and lexicon, while maintaining mutual intelligibility through shared grammar and core vocabulary. Sayidir has appeared in novels, role-playing games, and online conlang discussions, where creators continually expand its world-building details.