Bordurian is the national language of Borduria, a fictional Balkan dictatorship created by Hergé for the Tintin series. Little is known about Bordurian, as it is not extensively presented in the Tintin stories. The neighboring language Syldavian, for example, has been proven to be a Germanic language, but so few words of Bordurian are known that such an analysis for this language is impossible. There are several words with an apparent Germanic origin, though, hôitgang, (cf. Dutch uitgang), mänhir (cf. Dutch mijnheer), ointhfan (cf. Dutch ontvangst) sztôpp, tzhôl (cf. German Zoll, Dutch tol and English toll) and zsnôrr (cf. Dutch snor). The ultimate source for these words are uncertain, though. The language appears to use the same Latin orthography as Syldavian, but unlike Syldavian, which also uses Cyrillic, it is written only in the Latin alphabet. Borduria is a fictional country in the adventures of Tintin. ... ... A dictatorship is a autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by a dictator. ... Georges Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ... The main cast of the series. ... Syldavian is a fictional language created by Hergé as the national language of Syldavia, a small fictional Balkan kingdom that serves as a major setting in some Tintin stories. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages; (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ...

Almost the complete corpus (except for Müsstler) is found in "The Calculus Affair". The Calculus Affair (LAffaire Tournesol) is the eighteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ...

Known words

• amaïh! - "hail!"
• da - "of"
• hôitgang - "exit"
• mänhir - "mister"
• ointhfan - "reception desk"
• opernska - "opera"
• platz - "square"
• Pristzy! - "Darn!" (from French "sapristi!")
• szonett - Perhaps "one way street" or "entrance".
• sztôpp - "Stop!"
• tzhôl - "customs"
• zservis - "service"
• zsnôrr - "mustache" or "snore"

Place names

• Bakhine
• Szohôd

Names of people

• Kardouk
• Kavitch
• Klûmsi - (Original French: Himmerszeck, akin to Dutch immer ziek (always sick))
• Krônik
• Kûrvi-Tasch - (From English curvy (mus)tache, Original French: Pleksy-Gladz, based on plexiglass)
• Müsstler - (an obvious portmanteau of Mussolini and Hitler)
• Sponsz