Dear any kind Rioters,
I would like to write a fanfic related to Vastaya Champions, is it possible if a rioter around here can provide me with the structure of how Vastayah Language is created? As a fanfic writer, I would like to know more about Vastayah Language!
Kind regards.
Hey Ez, like Beyond Legends has already pointed out, there are actually many vastayan languages (since there are many vastayan tribes), so there's a lot of room for you to apply your own creativity!
I actually helped create the language that Xayah quotes in-game, it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do here at Riot! I don't think it's Lhotlan though. In fact, I know it's not because it was created for another tribe. [slayer-jinx-wink] Xayah just knows how to speak it, from her travels.
It's actually not that easy to explain how the language works. It's a six page document, and that only covers a small slice of the language; enough for me to write a handful of lines.
Here are some of the things I thought about when creating the language, though (it's baraashi, for the record):
How are sentences structured? In English it's subject -> verb -> object, ex: I, love, cheese ravioli Baraashi is subject -> object -> verb, ex: I, cheese ravioli, love
How are verbs themselves handled? Conjugation is where a lot of languages get complicated. So for simplicity, I avoided it for the most part (like in Chinese). Words before the verb indicate to who and when the verbs apply. However, there are examples where this changes, a second way to construct sentences that is still correct. ;) Languages are never simple...
How long are words? Compare German to Chinese. Baraashi words should be short, three syllables max.
What sounds should be prevalent? I looked at animals and Finnish as a starting point.
And most importantly for all of the above... why? CertainlyT actually insisted that I sit down and make a bullet point list of what the people speaking the language are like, before anything else.
Anyway, without further ado, here are some sample sentences, translated.
I will gather magic. -> Baasi om soura. Baasi (I, future) Om (magic) Soura (to gather)
They are not-vastaya. -> Faash vastaya na. Faash (They, present) Vastaya (vastaya) Na (To not be)
Vi-om tann va’h. Vi-om (wild-magic) tann (here) va'h (to be, present)
If you didn't recognize it, that last one is a direct Xayah quote. She doesn't pronounce it correctly btw, she has a "human" accent. Which I think says something interesting about the state of vastaya, struggling to stay in touch with their heritage.
tldr, creating languages is actually fun! I apologize for all the times I judged Tolkien for writing elvish poems.
Which kind vastayan? Their are mutiple trbes of them running around
Hello, I would like to request about Lhotlan tribes language, featuring Xayah and Rakan. Thanks for telling me that between.
