Syldavian
Sign in to saveSyldavian is a fictional West Germanic language created by Hergé as the national language of Syldavia, a fictional Balkan kingdom that serves as a major setting in many of The Adventures of Tintin stories. Hergé modeled the language on Brusselian, a dialect of Dutch spoken in and around Brussels. The entire corpus of the language has been analyzed by Mark Rosenfelder.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Syldavian
- Language.nativename
- ,
- Language.states
- Syldavia
- Language.region
- Balkans
- Language.ethnicity
- Syldavians
- Language.speakers
- 642,000 (1939)
- Language.date
- NA
- Language.ref
- (fictional)
- Language.familycolor
- constructed
- Language.fam1
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Germanic
- Language.fam3
- West Germanic
- Language.fam4
- Weser–Rhine Germanic
- Language.fam5
- Low Franconian
- Language.fam6
- Dutch
- Language.fam7
- Brabantian
- Language.fam8
- Southern
- Language.fam9
- Pajots
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Syldavian is a fictional West Germanic language created by Hergé as the national language of Syldavia, a fictional Balkan kingdom that serves as a major setting in many of The Adventures of Tintin stories. Hergé modeled the language on Brusselian, a dialect of Dutch spoken in and around Brussels. The entire corpus of the language has been analyzed by Mark Rosenfelder.
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