vananeb

Vananeb is a fictional language developed for speculative fiction and conlang communities. It functions as a constructed language within a hypothetical world and is described in fan wikis and collaborative writing projects. In its in-world setting, Vananeb serves as the primary means of everyday communication for a stylized culture, and its features are used to explore themes of identity, tradition, and social organization.

Linguistic features of Vananeb are described as agglutinative with a subject–object–verb syntax. Nouns take suffixes to indicate number and case, and verbs carry affixes that express tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality. The language favors postposed morphology, with relatively free word order in informal speech but a strong tendency toward SOV in structured discourse. There is no definite article, and demonstratives mark proximity and distance.

Phonology is presented as a modest system with five vowels and a modest consonant inventory: p, t, k, m, n, s, l, r, h, plus a glottal stop. Stress generally falls on the penultimate syllable. The writing system in-universe includes a native syllabary and a Latin-based transliteration used in published materials. Fan translations typically render Vananeb in the Latin alphabet with diacritics to indicate tone and length.

In-world usage centers on daily communication, ceremonial speech, and folklore. The language is a focal point of cultural pride, and several fan-authored grammars and dictionaries have emerged. Because Vananeb is a fictional construct, its details vary across sources, with different authors updating phonology, morphology, and vocabulary as the world-building evolves.

See also Constructed language, Conlang, Language and world-building.