Kiryattic

Kiryattic κιρϊάάκϊάν κιάλε
Pronounced:	[ˈkir.jæː.ˌcɛ̃ ˈcæ.le]
Species:	Human
Spoken:	Greece
Writing system:	Greek
Genealogy:	Proto-Uralic Proto-Finnic Kiryaakattic
Credits
Creator:	Lumi
Created:	January 5th, 2026

Kiryaakattic is a Finnic language spoken in Greece. It, as with most Finnic languages, remains decently conservative. Kiryaakattic is most distinguishable by the preservation of word final Proto-Finnic *k (as modern /g/) and *h (as modern /k/).

History

Kiryaakattic is a descendant of late Proto-Finnic, though it isn't attested till the early 12th century in Greece, written in an adaptation of Greek miniscule that is largely still used (hence why many letter forms seem odd or wrong).

Early period

Kiryaakattic was only sparsely written, even during the time we have verified records of it, and it wouldn't get to a literary position till the later 1600's, when linguists took interest in it for clearly not fitting in the Indo-European family, it was then a small set of linguists took up trying to link it to other languages, when similarities between it and Finnish were noticed, early proponents of a link between Finnish and Hungarian, such as Martin Fogel and Georg Stiernhielm, took interest in it as well.

These early linguists would start work on reconstructing a "Proto-Finnic", relying on Kiryaakattic at points for the conservative features it does retain, such as final -γ where the other Finnic languages have nothing. The discovery of the link between Kiryaakattic and the Finnic languages is attributed to Martin Fogel. At points, linguists realized Kiryaakattic could be incredibly divergent in certain areas, such as grammatically, where Kiryaakattic very often showed signs of regularization or even leveling, this made linguists retiscent to use it for reconstructing grammar, instead using it mainly for reconstructing the general phonological structure of words, where it is rather helpful.

The dual forms of Kiryaakattic have caused much debate among linguists, as the way they fit into the language seems to suggest they're incredibly old, possibly even from Proto-Finnic, but had that been the case, you would expect to see remnants of a dual in the other Finnic languages, but there isn't one, so it's now generally agreed that the dual was an early innovation in Kiryaakattic that over time became more and more settled into the inflection systems till it was no more noticeable than the other suffixes.

A debate around the dual forms is about why the nouns recieved a -α-, but the verbs recieved a -δ, one of the more accepted theories proposes that due to the nature of how number is marked on the two, the origin of the dual affix reduced differently, so in nouns it reduced to a vowel to fit into the -ε-/-ι- pattern (thus -ε-/-α-/-ι-), while on verbs it reduced to *-ks, then through regular sound change it become -δ, this is also why most linguists believe the dual originates from the reduction and eventual suffixation of *kakci, which would have been *kaksi at the time, the idea is it went through several stages of reduction:

In nouns: *kakci > *kaksi > *kaks(ə) > *-kas- > *-ah- > -a-

In verbs: *kakci > *kaksi > *kaks(ə) > *-kaks > *-aks > *-ks > *-gz > *-dð > -d

Another dispute has been held over the negative forms, it's thought they come from the suffixation of Proto-Finnic *e-, which does well explain the forms, but the process behind it remains unknown, though it likely at least began through Jespersen's cycle, which explains the negative being post-verb.

The plural verb forms have also been a point of contention, they're clearly composed of the singular form with -α affixed to the end, but the origin of these forms is unknown, though it's been suggested the -α comes from the ending on several (but not all) of the verb forms in Proto-Finnic, and this is widely accepted as no better explanation exists. Another problem is figuring out order all of these changes happened in, as that greatly impacts the expected forms.

The chronology of these changes greatly dictates how we would expect modern Kiryaakattic to look, so below is a widely accepted theory.

1: Jespersen's cycle and subsequent suffixation of the negative

2: Leveling of the verbal plural to -α, and the nominal plural to -ι- (as well as the nominal singular to -ε-)

3: Innovation of the dual, using the plural as a model

Modern day

In 1985-87, the Academy of Kiryaakattic Linguistics (AKL) finalized a standardized form of the language that leveled the grammar completely, thus making everything entirely regular, this is the form of the language taught in schools, leading to most younger speakers using a variant of it, while older speakers continue to use the old forms, this can sometimes cause problems in communication between younger and older speakers. While this form is spoken natively by most Kiryaks, especially the younger generations, it must be noted it did not arise through natural evolution, it was explicitly engineered to be how it is by an academy, to which a reformed language would be beneficial.

Among this reformation of the language was many new loanwords from Greek to replace older words that could be seen as potentially offensive or derogatory, many of these already existed within the language, but were now the standard, such as "σκϊύλάσ" (From Greek "σκῠ́λᾰξ") replacing older "πενιγγα" (From Proto-Finnic *penikka), this specific example was already common among younger speakers, and it became especially so with the rise of the internet.

Since the late 1970's, past tense forms of the optative and potential have been developing, being fully solidified when the reform was published, as it included this development in a regularized form. This is extremely notable for being one of the few major developments in the modern language that happened naturally.

With the rise of the internet, the language has been changing less and less, as the language is continuously documented and cemented in its current form. Social media has further slowed evolution, as the informal language reaches a kind of written standard as well due to the sheer amount of written content that people write and consume every day.

Phonology

Phonology

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	m	n	ɲ
Plosive¹	p, b	t, d	c, ɟ	k, g
Fricative	(f)¹	(θ)¹, s	ç	x
Approximant	w	r, l	j

1: Exist in loanwords and very rarely in some native words.

Oral vowels

	Neutral¹	Front	Back
High	i	y	u
Mid-High	e	ø	o
Mid-Low		œ	ɔ
Low		æ	ɑ

Nasal vowels

	Neutral¹	Front	Back
High	ĩ	ỹ	ũ
Mid	ẽ	ø̃	õ
Low		ɛ̃	ɑ̃

1: Vowels unaffected by harmony

2: All vowels can be long

Orthography

Orthography

Letter	Transcription		Name	Pronunciation
	Finnic	Greek
α	a		αλφα	/ɑ/
ά	ä	á	άικά	/æ~a/
β	b		βετα	/b/
γ	g		γαμμα	/g/
δ	d		δελτα	/d/
ε	e		επσιλον	/e/
ζ	z		ζετα	/(d)z/
θ	th		θετα	/θ/
ι	i		ιωτα	/i/
ϊ	j	ï		/j/
κ	k		καππα	/k/
λ	l		λαμδα	/l/
μ	m		μυ	/m/
ν	n		νυ	/n/
ο	o		ομικρον	/o/
ό	ö	ó		/ø/
π	p		πι	/p/
ρ	r		ρο	/r/
σ	s		σιγμα	/s/
τ	t		ταυ	/t/
υ	u		υπσιλον	/u/
ύ	ü~y	ú		/y/
ϋ	w	ü		/w/
φ	ph~f		φι	/f/
χ	h		χι	/x/
ω	å	ō	ωμεγα	/ɔ/
ώ	ô	ṓ		/œ/

It is important to note that handwritten Kiryaakattic often looks nothing like its displayed counterpart, as handwritten Kiryaakattic uses many unique letter forms, and also makes extensive use of ligatures and shorthand symbols, some of which are for Greek words, rather than native ones, as with the symbol for "και" often being used in place of native "ϊα"

A short sample of handwritten Kiryaakattic, reading "κιρϊάάκιάν κιάλε", this particular sample lacks the acutes

Grammar

Morphology

Kiryaakattic is agglutinative like the other Finnic languages, but unlike them there are incredibly few patterns in the modern language. The grammar is incredibly easy to analyze due to its extreme consistency and regularity that makes it easy to separate suffixes from roots.

An odd part of Kiryaakattic morphology is the development of a dual form from *kakci, it's not known why or how this developed, but it's an important aspect of modern Kiryaakattic morphology.

Nouns

Nouns are some of the oddest bits of Kiryaakattic morphology, as they've undergone so much regularization that many of the forms look nothing like the Proto-Finnic.

Inflection of "κιάλε"

	singular	dual	plural
Nominative	κιάλε	κιάλά	κιάλι
Accusative	κιάλετ	κιάλάτ	κιάλιτ
Genitive	κιάλεν	κιάλάεν	κιάλιεν
Partitive	κιάλεά	κιάλάά	κιάλιά
Inessive	κιάλεσσά	κιάλάσσά	κιάλισσά
Elative	κιάλεστά	κιάλάστά	κιάλιστά
Illative	κιάλεεν	κιάλάάν	κιάλιιν
Adessive¹	κιάλελλά	κιάλάλλά	κιάλιλλά
Ablative	κιάλελτά	κιάλάλτά	κιάλιλτά
Allative	κιάλελεγ	κιάλάλεγ	κιάλιλεγ
Essive	κιάλενά	κιάλάνά	κιάλινά
Translative	κιάλεδι	κιάλάδι	κιάλιδι
Instructive	κιάλεν	κιάλάν	κιάλιν
Comitative	κιάλενγ	κιάλάνγ	κιάλινγ
Abessive	κιάλεττά	κιάλάττά	κιάλιττά

1: The adessive also functions as a dative

An important aspect of nouns is the possessed forms (or "possessive forms" in Finnish grammar), these are the forms of nouns with a suffix marking who's possessing it (thus acting like "my", "your", "their", etc...)

Post-Reform possessive suffixes

Singular	1st	-με
	2nd	-σε
	3rd	-κε
Dual	1st	-μα
	2nd	-σα
	3rd	-κα
Plural	1st	-μι
	2nd	-σι
	3rd	-κι

Pre-Reform possessive suffixes

		Nom sg	Obl/pl
Singular	1st	-μι	-νι
	2nd	-(σ)σι	-νσι
	3rd	-σα	-νσα
Plural	1st	-μαγ	-ναγ
	2nd	-(C)αγ¹	-(ν)ναγ
	3rd	-σαγ	-νσαγ

1: The (C) is an assimilatory consonant, when following a consonant, it becomes the same as it, but after a vowel, it's simply absent, as in "κιάλετ" > "κιάλεττάγ", but "κιάλε" > "κιάλεάγ"

Pronouns

Post-Reform pronouns

	1st			2nd			3rd
	Singular	Dual	Plural	Singular	Dual	Plural	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	μινε	μινά	μινι	σινε	σινά	σινι	χινε	χινά	χινι
Accusative	μινετ	μινάτ	μινιτ	σινετ	σινάτ	σινιτ	χινετ	χινάτ	χινιτ
Genitive	μινεν	μινάν	μινιν	σινεν	σινάν	σινιν	χινεν	χινάν	χινιν
Partitive	μινεά	μινάά	μινιά	σινεά	σινάά	σινιά	χινεά	χινάά	χινιά
Inessive	μινεσσά	μινάσσά	μινισσά	σινεσσά	σινάσσά	σινισσά	χινεσσά	χινάσσά	χινισσά
Elative	μινεστά	μινάστά	μινιστά	σινεστά	σινάστά	σινιστά	χινεστά	χινάστά	χινιστά
Illative	μινεεν	μινάεν	μινιεν	σινεεν	σινάεν	σινιεν	χινεεν	χινάεν	χινιεν
Adessive	μινελλά	μινάλλά	μινιλλά	σινελλά	σινάλλά	σινιλλά	χινελλά	χινάλλά	χινιλλά
Ablative	μινελτά	μινάλτά	μινιλτά	σινελτά	σινάλτά	σινιλτά	χινελτά	χινάλτά	χινιλτά
Allative	μινελεγ	μινάλεγ	μινιλεγ	σινελεγ	σινάλεγ	σινιλεγ	χινελεγ	χινάλεγ	χινιλεγ
Essive	μινενά	μινάνά	μινινά	σινενά	σινάνά	σινινά	χινενά	χινάνά	χινινά
Translative	μινεδι	μινάδι	μινιδι	σινεδι	σινάδι	σινιδι	χινεδι	χινάδιδι	χινι
Instructive	μινεν	μινάν	μινιν	σινεν	σινάν	σινιν	χινεν	χινάν	χινιν
Comitative	μινενγ	μινάνγ	μινινγ	σινενγ	σινάνγ	σινινγ	χινενγ	χινάνγ	χινινγ
Abessive	μινεττά	μινάττά	μινιττά	σινεττά	σινάττά	σινιττά	χινεττά	χινάττά	χινιττά

Pre-Reform pronouns

	1st		2nd		3rd
	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
Nominative	μινύ	μειγ	σινύ	σειγ	χινύ	χειγ
Accusative	μινύν	μειετ	σινύν	σειετ	χινύν	χειετ
Genitive	μινύν	μειεν	σινύν	σειεν	χινύν	χειεν
Partitive	μινύά	μειτά	σινύά	σειτά	χινύά	χειτά
Inessive	μινύσσά	μεισσά	σινύσσά	σεισσά	χινύσσά	χεισσά
Elative	μινύστά	μειστά	σινύστά	σειστά	χινύστά	χειστά
Illative	μινύεν	μεισεν	σινύεν	σεισεν	χινύεν	χεισεν
Adessive	μινύλλά	μειλλά	μινύλλά	μειλλά	χινύλλά	χειλλά
Ablative	μινύλτά	μειλτά	σινύλτά	σειλτά	χινύλτά	χειλτά
Allative	μινύλεγ	μειλεγ	σινύλεγ	σειλεγ	χινύλεγ	χειλεγ
Essive	μινύνά	μεινά	σινύνά	σεινά	χινύνά	χεινά
Translative	μινύδι	μειδι	σινύδι	σειδι	χινύδι	χειδι
Instructive	μινύν	μειν	σινύν	σειν	χινύν	χειν
Comitative	μινύνεγ	μεινεγ	σινύνεγ	σεινεγ	χινύνεγ	χεινεγ
Abessive	μινύττά	μειττά	σινύττά	σειττά	χινύττά	χειττά

Most younger speakers will make use of the post-reform set, but older speakers typically employ the pre-reform set, which can, at times, make communication rather difficult. Though the pre-reform set is older, it's not the inherited set, which seem to have feel out of use centuries ago.

Verbs

Verbs are highly complex, and like nouns, have dual forms.

Inflection of "λόύτάάγ" (a-ie)

Present Indicative		Positive	Negative	Present Conditional		Positive	Negative
Singular	1st	λόύτάν	λόύτάκεν	Singular	1st	λόύτάδιν	λόύτάδικεν
	2nd	λόύτάτ	λόύτάκετ		2nd	λόύτάδιτ	λόύτάδικετ
	3rd	λόυτάβι	λόύτάκεβι		3rd	λόύτάδι	λόύτάδικε
Dual	1st	λόύτάνδ	λόύτάκενδ	Dual	1st	λόύτάδινδ	λόύτάδικενδ
	2nd	λόύτάδ	λόύτάκεδ		2nd	λόύτάδιδ	λόύτάδικεδ
	3rd	λόυτάβιδ	λόύτάκεβιδ		3rd	λόύτάδιδ	λόύτάδικεδ
Plural	1st	λόύτάνά	λόύτάκενά	Plural	1st	λόύτάδινά	λόύτάδικενά
	2nd	λόύτάτά	λόύτάκετά		2nd	λόύτάδιτά	λόύτάδικετά
	3rd	λόυτάβιά	λόύτάκεβιά		3rd	λόύτάδιά	λόύτάδικεά
Passive		λόύτάδεν	λόύτάδδάγ	Passive		λόύτάδιεν	λόύτάδιγ
Past Indicative		Positive	Negative	Past Conditional		Positive	Negative
Singular	1st	λόύτιεν	λόύτιεκεν	Singular	1st	λόύτιεδιν	λόύτιεδικεν
	2nd	λόύτιετ	λόύτιεκετ		2nd	λόύτιεδιτ	λόύτιεδικετ
	3rd	λόυτιεβι	λόύτιεκεβι		3rd	λόύτιεδι	λόύτιεδικε
Dual	1st	λόύτιενδ	λόύτιεκενδ	Dual	1st	λόύτιεδινδ	λόύτιεδικενδ
	2nd	λόύτιεδ	λόύτιεκεδ		2nd	λόύτιεδιδ	λόύτιεδικεδ
	3rd	λόυτιεβιδ	λόύτιεκεβιδ		3rd	λόύτιεδιδ	λόύτιεδικεδ
Plural	1st	λόύτιενά	λόύτιεκενά	Plural	1st	λόύτιεδινά	λόύτιεδικενά
	2nd	λόύτιετά	λόύτιεκετά		2nd	λόύτιεδιτά	λόύτιεδικετά
	3rd	λόυτιεβιά	λόύτιεκεβιά		3rd	λόύτιεδιά	λόύτιεδικεά
Passive		λόύτιεδεν	λόύτιεδδάγ	Passive		λόύτιεδιεν	λόύτιεδιγ
Optative		Positive	Negative	Potential		Positive	Negative
Singular	1st	λόύτάόν	λόύτάόκεν	Singular	1st	λόύτάνεν	λόύτάνκεν
	2nd	λόύτάότ	λόύτάόκετ		2nd	λόύτάνετ	λόύτάνκετ
	3rd	λόύτάό	λόύτάόκε		3rd	λόύτάνε	λόύτάνκε
Dual	1st	λόύτάόνδ	λόύτάόκενδ	Dual	1st	λόύτάνενδ	λόύτάνκενδ
	2nd	λόύτάόδ	λόύτάόδ		2nd	λόύτάνεδ	λόύτάνκεδ
	3rd	λόύτάόδ	λόύτάόκεδ		3rd	λόύτάνεδ	λόύτάνκεδ
Plural	1st	λόύτάόνά	λόύτάόκενά	Plural	1st	λόύτάνενά	λόύτάνκενά
	2nd	λόύτάότά	λόύτάόκετά		2nd	λόύτάνετά	λόύτάνκετά
	3rd	λόύτάόά	λόύτάόκεά		3rd	λόύτάνεά	λόύτάνκεά
Passive		λόύτάόκόεν	λόύτάόγ	Passive		λόύτάνεεν	λόύτάνγ
Past optative		Positive	Negative	Past potential		Positive	Negative
Singular	1st	λόύτιόν	λόύτιόκεν	Singular	1st	λόύτιενεν	λόύτιενκεν
	2nd	λόύτιότ	λόύτιόκετ		2nd	λόύτιενετ	λόύτιενκετ
	3rd	λόύτιό	λόύτιόκε		3rd	λόύτιενε	λόύτιενκε
Dual	1st	λόύτιόνδ	λόύτιόκενδ	Dual	1st	λόύτιενενδ	λόύτιενκενδ
	2nd	λόύτιόδ	λόύτιόκεδ		2nd	λόύτιενεδ	λόύτιενκεδ
	3rd	λόύτιόδ	λόύτιόκεδ		3rd	λόύτιενεδ	λόύτιενκεδ
Plural	1st	λόύτιόνά	λόύτιόκενά	Plural	1st	λόύτιενενά	λόύτιενκενά
	2nd	λόύτιότά	λόύτιόκετά		2nd	λόύτιενετά	λόύτιενκετά
	3rd	λόύτιόά	λόύτιόκεά		3rd	λόύτιενεά	λόύτιενκεά
Passive		λόύτιόκόεν	λόύτιόγ	Passive		λόύτιενεεν	λόύτιενγ
Imperative		Positive	Negative	Non-finite		Active	Passive
Singular	1st	—		Participle	Present	λόύτάβά	λόύτάπά
	2nd	λόύτάάγ	λόύτάάκάλάγ		Old past¹	λόύτάνύτ	λόύτάύ
	3rd	λόύτάάσεν	λόύτάάκάλάσεν		New past¹	λόύτιεβά	λόύτιεπά
Dual	1st	λόύτάάτενδ	λόύτάάκάλάνδ
	2nd	λόύτάάκτ	λόύτάάκάλάκτ	Infinitive		λόύτάάγ
	3rd	λόύτάάσενδ	λόύτάάκάλάσενδ	Gerund		λόύτάμά
Plural	1st	λόύτάάτεμά	λόύτάάκάλάμά	Action noun		λόύτάμινεν
	2nd	λόύτάάκά	λόύτάάκάλάκά
	3rd	λόύτάάσενά	λόύτάάκάλάσενά
Passive		λόύτάάκάεν	λόύτάάγ

1: The difference between the old past and the new past is the forms alone, they're identical in usage.

As can be seen, Kiryaakattic has unique negative forms, these developed from the suffixation of Proto-Finnic *e- (negative verb) to the connegative form, these connegative forms were later lost, leaving only the negative forms.

Syntax and Semantics

Word order is almost entirely free, even describer-describee (adjective/numeral-noun) order varies, descriptors typically come before the described, but it's possible to construct it differently, "the good puppy" is typically constructed "χύϋε νε σκϊύλάσ" ("the good puppy", lit. "good the puppy"), but it's also possible to use the essive to denote it, as in "νε σκϊύλά χύϋενά" ("the puppy that's good", lit. "the puppy in a state of good"), however, when speaking of health, only the second construction is used, thus "you are well" is rendered as "σινε χύϋενά" (lit. "you in a state of good").

Cases

Now, this may seem out of place here, but this is for the uses of the cases, not their forms.

Nominative: Subject. Also used for both arguments in an "A = B" argument.

Accusative: Direct object.

Genitive: Used for possession, birthplace, and occasionally for relationships in older or poetic language.

Partitive: Used literally, to denote part of something.

Inessive: Location within something.

Elative: movement out of.

Illative: movement into.

Adessive: at or on something.

Ablative: Movement from something.

Allative: movement onto. Also used as a dative.

Essive: Closer to a formal case, used to mark a state of being. Used in place of "to be" in some circumstances, especially when speaking of health, morality, and behavior.

Translative: Change of states.

Instructive: Closer to an instrumental.

Comitative: "with", as in the meaning of company.

Abessive: Absence of something.

Examples and Analysis

μινύ ϊοκενα ολε

This example is the Biblical "I am what I am", though it reads extremely differently.

1.SG.NOM REL.ESS be

This would read as roughly "I am what is", though several more interpretive translations exist, such as "I am what all things exist through".