Syldavian

Syldavian
Syldavian
Зйлдав, Zyldav
Pronunciation	/zɪldav/
Created by	Hergé
Date	1939
Setting and usage	The Adventures of Tintin
Ethnicity	Syldavians
Users	642,000 (1939) (fictional)
Purpose	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Weser–Rhine Germanic Low Franconian Dutch Brabantian Southern Pajots Brusselian Syldavian; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Cyrillic; Latin
Sources	Dutch; Marols
Official status
Official language in	Syldavia
Regulated by	unknown
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None
IETF	art-x-syldavia

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.

Syldavian
Зйлдав, Zyldav
Pronunciation	/zɪldav/
Created by	Hergé
Date	1939
Setting and usage	The Adventures of Tintin
Ethnicity	Syldavians
Users	642,000 (1939) (fictional)
Purpose	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Weser–Rhine Germanic Low Franconian Dutch Brabantian Southern Pajots Brusselian Syldavian
Writing system	Cyrillic Latin
Sources	Dutch Marols
Official status
Official language in	Syldavia
Regulated by	unknown
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	None
IETF	`art-x-syldavia`