çli

Çli is a constructed language (conlang) developed for a fictional archipelago, the Nivara Islands, and serves as the native tongue of the Çli people in that setting. The language was created to accompany a worldbuilding project and has since been described in several fan and scholarly glossaries. Çli is designed to be approachable for learners while exhibiting features commonly associated with agglutinative systems and vowel harmony.

Phonology: Çli uses a Latin-based orthography augmented by several diacritics. The standard consonant inventory includes stops p, b, t, d, k, g; fricatives f, s, ʃ; nasals m, n, ŋ; liquids l, r; and semivowels w, j. The letter ç marks an affricate [t͡ʃ] as in chair. The vowel system consists of five vowels a, e, i, o, u, with limited vowel harmony that favors front-back pairings across affixes.

Grammar: Çli is predominantly analytic and agglutinative, with a subject–object–verb (SOV) base word order. Nouns take case suffixes for nominative, accusative, and other roles, while verbs encode tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality through a system of prefixes and suffixes. Possession is expressed by possessive suffixes attached to the noun.

Usage and writing: The language uses a Latin script with diacritics and has a small but active community of learners and creators online. It appears in worldbuilding writings, game materials, and fan glossaries, where speakers may adopt regional variants. Çli’s concise phonology and regular morphology are intended to facilitate both study and storytelling.