saylara

Saylara is a constructed language created for speculative fiction and linguistic experimentation. In its fictional setting, Saylara is spoken on the Saylar Archipelago and serves as a cultural marker for the Saylar people. The name Saylara is derived from the archipelago’s name and is used to refer to both the language and its speakers.

Phonology features five vowel phonemes and a consonant inventory including p, t, k, m, n, s, l, r, f, h. The language uses a Latin-based alphabet with diacritics indicating vowel length in some texts. Stress tends to fall on the penultimate syllable. Saylara favors a syllable structure of CV or CVC, with occasional consonant clusters in loanwords.

Grammar is analytic and agglutinative, with a base subject–object–verb (SOV) order. The language marks grammatical relations with suffixes and uses postpositions rather than prepositions. It is nominative-accusative, with number shown on nouns or via plural markers, and adjectives follow the nouns they modify. Verbs carry aspectual and mood suffixes; tense is marked through auxiliary particles or verb suffixes.

Saylara has a small but active community of learners and writers. Dictionaries, phrasebooks, and grammar notes circulate online, and Saylara appears in fan fiction and role-playing settings within the Saylar universe. The language is used primarily for world-building and linguistic exploration rather than as a spoken lingua franca.