ok so i have determined the closest alphabet to borginian is probably a mix of glatolitic and cyrillic. meaning, the potential history of borginia would be an insanely interesting topic, if it is actually slavic and has an alphabet like that. because that would mean it’s an eastern orthodox (or potentially eastern catholic?) nation of slavs, somewhere in northern europe (stated in-game), would probably be almost the furthest west of all slavs if it weren’t for the czech republic and yet would have elements of ancient, ancient slavic culture. that would be a really fucking interesting history i think.
anyways i wanted to figure this out because i want to make a borginian conlang. it being slavic makes it wayyyy easier for me lol because slavic history and cultures (it was mainly russia, but all of them were interesting to me. i had a big czech kick for a while too) was (sometimes still is) one of my special interests. i know a lot of russian, as well as a little tiny bit of czech and ukrainian, so hopefully that makes old church slavonic/protoslavic easier for me to make sense of and make a conlang for.
For context, this is what Borginian looks like:
Glatolitic (rounded and sharp):
And an early form of cyrillic (this is an alphabet instead of a sentence example):
If I ever get around to making this it will be a SUPER interesting conlang. It’ll ooze with hidden history all on its own, and in universe would be a living remnant of the past, which is fucking cool as fuck. you guys dont know how much i love this development this is the greatest thing to ever happen to me the autism mode is going so strong
Also just realized the name machi tobaye could very easily work in at least an eastern slavic language. so could the name borginia. lamiroir doesnt so much, and it canonically is a borginian word, but i dont really think that completely matters. to be honest “siren” isnt actually something that should have that different of a translation (as far as i understand siren is more often than not a word that is imported by most other languages), but also it could just be that the translation is an approximation rather than being exact. i think thatd especially make sense if borginia was isolated enough to apparently keep a writing system that old with little latin alphabet input (borginia would be surrounded by latin alphabet languages, even its closest slavic neighbors—poland, the sorbs, czechia, slovakia—would use the latin alphabet)
i have no idea how these hypothetical probably christian preaching slavs would migrate from southeastern to northern europe whilst picking up literally nothing linguistically on the way but like who knows lol