In my epic of creating the Fedhana, I was always thinking about what their language would be like. I wanted to give things that are unique to them proper names in their language. So I created Uuérstom.
To mirror my inspiration and research into historical people of prehistory, I decided to base my language off of Proto-Germanic. But just copying a reconstructed language seemed dull to me so I added personal touches as well as a flare of modern-day Polish to shift it more towards a Slavic sound.
My main goal was to have the Fedhanian language sound ancient and out-of-place, just like they are.
To achieve that sort of sound, I wanted to make a 'sound selection' of all the sounds that are used in Uuérstom. For that I looked at many commonalities that old reconstructed languages have.
To give it its ancient feel, I landed on rather harsh consonants that have not been rounded by the natural language shift yet. Also in most Uuérstom words, the first syllable is the stressed one, to give it a primal and rhythmic feeling.
Below you can see an insight into the basic grammar I wrote, borrowing elements from German and Polish.
While developing the Fedhana's faith and their cultural beliefs, I once wrote a prayer poem. To field-test my language I translated that poem into Uuérstom to get a feeling of how full sentences flow.
"z eto stojva, olvo haraste vonem
voku j-dova nokti eo otche uuarte
ajś neśa oko ektheste uuartez jezev
oko cheve i aldeno kilichaneze kauhaz
ninen richteco uuartaneze vonem
voku nen neśo rete i uuarte narev
ajś eto stojva z neśo kuuafte i haraste ladiz jet
i eo volomeze uuartet i hiz olveje kauhat"
"with this prayer I call upon the power of the light
to keep my herd safe both day and night
may they be protected from all strife
shielded from danger and the challenges of life
I call upon the guardians of the nine directions
to bring forth their strength and protection
may this prayer be charged with their energy and might
and keep my people safe and guarded by the light"
I also thought of a writing system. The only time the Fedhana use symbols to carve quick messages or warnings into trees, similar to signposts.
So I went with an alphabet that uses angular lines and writes from top to bottom.