száue

Száue is a fictional language developed for linguistic illustration and world-building. It is not attested in real-world communities but has been described in linguistic exercises and conlang (constructed language) projects as a language isolate of a hypothetical archipelago called Száur in a southern sea region. The term száue itself is used within these contexts to refer to both the language and its speakers in imagined scenarios.

Linguistic description commonly attributed to száue portrays it as an agglutinative, head-final language with a strict SOV (subject–object–verb) word order. Noun phrases rely on suffixal case marking for grammatical relations, and verbs bear multiple affixes that encode tense, aspect, mood, person, and evidentiality. The language is described as moderately rich in verbal morphology and as having serial verb constructions in complex predicates. Noun incorporation and postpositions are noted as frequent alternatives to separate prepositional phrases in longer clauses.

Phonology and writing in száue are typically outlined as having a vowel inventory of five short vowels and a set of consonants that allows simple syllable structures such as CV and CVC. Stress is usually described as word-final or penultimate, depending on the analysis. The writing system is imagined as an alphabetic script, sometimes called Szávar, with a modest set of letters and diacritics to mark vowel length or tone in certain variants.

Usage and reception: száue is primarily discussed in conlang communities and speculative fiction contexts. It serves as a case study for typological variation and world-building rather than as a language with native speakers or real-world speakers. See also: constructed languages, conlangs, language isolates.