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
|
| 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.