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The Jiya language is a language I created for my book, "The Goldenlea." As you can see, it has its own grammatical structure completely unlike any language I knew or knew of at the time, with unique verb tenses and its own syllabic alphabet.
I created this as a skeletal framework for the purposes of writing the book; originally, there was going to be a great deal more text in the Jiya language and graphics displaying the alphabet; what I ended up with is roughly a short paragraph's worth of text.
Anyone who thought the Jiya language was just gibberish may be surprised to know just how much trouble I went through for those few sentences.
The book can be purchased as an e-book or as a paperback at these links:
http://baddogbooks.com/?product=the-goldenlea
http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=618
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No, actually. The sound of the language is made around the limitations of a syllabic alphabet like Japanese, the style of the alphabet is inspired somewhat by Tolkein's alphabets, and the vocabulary is built around the culture I conceived this language for (which is itself inspired loosely by Polynesian cultures).
To give context to the language, this is basically an island-dwelling race of peaceful melon farmers who only use arrows to hunt the dwarf wild boars that live on their island, though there are hints that they were formerly a technological society but they lost the need for it. They regard the technology of their ancestors as something magical by the time the story takes place. They have limited contact with the outside world but are not a "pre-contact" culture by any means and have even adopted a few foreign words into their vocabulary.
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Fascinating. I thought you used a slightly altered Native American tribe dialect.