tulostinvian

Tulostinvian is a fictional demonym and language family used in science fiction and worldbuilding. It refers to the inhabitants of Tulostin, a hypothetical planet situated in a distant star system. In most depictions, Tulostinvian society centers on the management, production, and preservation of information, with a culture oriented toward literacy, archives, and print technology.

The name blends the Finnish word tulostin (printer) with the common -ian suffix, chosen by authors for its connotations of writing and replication.

The Tulostinvian language is described as an agglutinative, script-based language with a rich set of metaphorical terms for ink, print, and transmission. Their writing system uses glyphs inspired by printer nozzles and page layouts, enabling compact data encoding.

Historically, Tulostinvian civilization develops a post-scarcity knowledge economy; early periods revolve around mechanical typesetting and syllable-based printing; later they develop data archives and holographic libraries; social structure includes guilds of scribes and librarians; governance is technocratic.

In various works, Tulostinvian is used as a symbol of information ethics, memory, and cultural resilience; critics note the recurring theme of information as a resource and the role of archives in identity.