yakyor

Yakyor is a fictional constructed language developed for the Yakyor Cycle, a multimedia franchise that includes novels, games, and guides. It is portrayed as the native tongue of the Yakyor people in the northern highlands of the imagined continent of Aethrea. The language serves as a linguistic and cultural backbone for dialogue, ritual texts, and lore within the fictional world.

Phonology and script: Yakyor features a consonant inventory of p, t, k, m, n, s, l, r, and a set of glides; vowels are a, e, i, o, u. It uses a Latin-based alphabet with diacritics for vowel qualities. Syllables are typically CV or CVC.

Grammar: Yakyor is largely analytic but includes derivational morphology via affixes. Its basic word order is SVO; adjectives precede nouns; demonstratives and numerals follow the noun. The language marks definiteness with particles and expresses aspect and mood on verbs through suffixes. The pronoun system distinguishes inclusive and exclusive first-person plural, and encodes clusivity in other person-number combinations; negation uses a dedicated particle before the verb.

Usage and status: Within the fiction, Yakyor is taught in schools and appears in archival texts and ceremonial speech. In the real world, it has attracted a small community of learners and scholars interested in conlang design, producing dictionaries, grammars, and translated dialogue for fans and researchers.