Vastayan Language

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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.

Thank you for your reply! Lastly, may I ask which language should I refer to if I want to learn more of their words? Like Soura( to gather)

To use other verbs to make other kind of sentence like: Baasi om ( use ).

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

I think it says something about her voice actress alright :p

Hi Interlocutioner, I'm sorry I might be late to the conversation, but I think I could use your help, and this very comment is the nearest thing I've found in the internet that could help me. I'm a young linguist with a passion for invented languages, and I'm doing researches on my own for a little project. I haven't had any luck when looking for information about fully developed conlangs created by Riot Games for the Runeterra universe, can you provide me with some information about the linguistic aspects of Runeterra? Is there an article, page, document I can download, essay I can read, book I can buy, on the matter? I would like to have every information existing at the moment on the languages spoken in Runeterra, with the full grammars of those languages, if available. Thanks in advance for your help!

Man. Hearing Rioters have fun with their creativity is the most heart warming thing I've read on this board.

Could you bring out a little dictionary? If not, there is just two things I would like to know: 'Hello' and 'I love you'.

Would you ever be interested in expanding the language into a "learnable" conlang similar to LoTR with Sindarin/Quenya? As a polyglot (English, Korean, Danish, Russian, Mandarin and French and Sindarin, Valyrian and a little Dothraki and my own language Selisara) and linguistics enthusiast I personally would love to be able to speak the same language as my favourite champion in League.

Or if that's a no, do I have your blessing to further develop the language?

As we say in Selisara "Heni saran far taalasi" which means Many thanks I give to you.

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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.

hey so i've been searching on how to translate stuff from the vastayan language and can't seem to find what i'm looking for, just wanna know what "just take me with you" would be in the vastayan langauge that xayah and rakan speak