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Valian (Välyatalle [ˈvæl.jɑˌtɑl.le], lit. "Good-speech") is an a priori artistic sketchlang inspired by the Finnic languages. In-universe, it is part of a very small language family of even sketchier sketchlangs, all spoken among various minority populations in Eurasia. It was primarily inspired by Estonian phonology, in a naïve and early attempt to maximize so-called 'cellar door'-sounds. It was created and is in the process of revision by Chrysophylax

Talle nëi yärgatta huvan.
This language was once featured.


Tälgisse küi yärgatalle midä nee käryatta vahan, nuras, sest mendest.
Thanks to its level of quality, plausibility and usage capabilities, it has been voted as featured.

Typologically, Valian is a nominative-accusative, vaguely agglutinative language. Verbal and nominal morphology is relatively simple. Unmarked word order is SVO but as Valian verbs are able to encapsulate pronouns in an agglutinative fashion, variation is possible.