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The Talvian languages, even called The Rijo-Hyldian languages, are a family of languages spoken in Hyldia and Vösia. Talvian languages are spoken by about 70 million people and Hyldian is the largest language.

Grouping

Talvian Languages
Hyldian: Talvian ; Rijon: ; Meirman:Talvian
Spoken in
Region	—
Total speakers
Language family	Talvian Languages;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	–
ISO 639-3	–
	Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Map of Talvian languages.

There are two subfamilies of the Talvian languages: The northern and the southern talvian languages. This is a table of the groupings of the language family.

+ Talvian
| - + Northern
|   | - + Old Hyldian
|   |   | - + - >  Hyldian
|   |   |   | - >  Hyldian dialects
|   |   | 
|   |   | - >  Meirman
|   |  
|   | - >  Seþtian
|         
| - + Southern
    |   - >  Monir  
    |
    | - + Old Rijon
        | - + - >  Rijon
        |   | - >  Rijon dialects
        |
        | - >  Loetlomian (Usimaa)

Hyldian

Hyldian is the national language of Hyldia. There are about 60.000.000 native speakers of hyldian and the majority of them are living in Hyldia, but about 5 million of the hyldian speaking population lives in Vösia.

Rijon

Meirman

Meirman is a small language spoken by the people on the hyldian island of Meirma and there is about 70,000 native speakers. The language is very alike the hyldian language and the meirman speakers can easily understand hyldians and vice versa. Diffrenses between meirman and hyldian are for example that words that end with a t in hyldian end with a d in meirman and the meirman diffthongs are not as complicated as the hyldian.
Meirman has also one letter that the hyldians don't use. The reason of that is that hyldian language just have one way of pronounsing the letter e [ɛ] (like the rijon ä), but meirman also have more closed e [e]. The open [ɛ] is there fore written with the letter Ë, ë, like the word for love - ëllimii.

Seþtian

Monir

Loetlomian

Phonology

Grammar

Verbs

The language family has two to four conjugations. They comes from the three conjugations of a proto-talvian language where the infintive forms are: -nut, -near and -ea. This is a list of the conjugations of the Talvian languages. (The languages with grey background are dead languages.)

Proto-talvian	-nut		-near	-ea
- Northern	-nuot		-neat	-eit
- - Old Hyldian	-uot		-neat	-eit
- - - Hyldian	-uyot		-eat	-et
- - - Meirman	-uod		-ead	-ed
- - Seþtian	-oe		-ea	-ie
- Southern	-nut	-ut	-neir	-ei
- - Monir
- - Old Rijon	-mat	-at	-nir	-i
- - - Rijon	-ma	-a	-ir	-i
- - - Loetlomian

Basic vocabulary

English	Proto-Talvian	Hyldian	Rijon	Meirman	Seþtian
(to) attack	töivnear	toeveat	tõvir	toivead	töohvea
autumn	tiovþoa	souþþa	tsuvõra	soþþa	tjovþoa
(to) be	unut	huyot (hu't)		huod	unoe
egg	höiväs	hoevns	hövä	hoivns	hoeijes
love	iläimei	ehlimyi	lääme	ëllimii	ieleamie
peace	naamho	noamþon	namðen	noimson	naahmþoa
sky	meivlie	maelin	maiva	mailin	maalie