Ciratovia

Development

 * When Bart van Oosterhout wrote the first case, he though Luc Notoire needed to have something to pepper his speach. This is when the country and the language of Ciratovia were created. According to Notoir, he studied the language and speaks it fluently.
 * Ciratovia is a mix between Asian and Dutch culture. Bart van Oosterhout dropped this culture bomb to bring some more diversity to the series.

Language

 * Due to Ciratovia's bonds with England, modern Ciratovian is just English with a bunch of Ciratovian words scrambled through. This is why John, Verité and even more people, get around the country so easily. This is also the reason why the voiceclips of Ciratovians are in Ciratovian and English.
 * The symbols of the Ciratovian Language (Ya-Ma-Azai) were created to look like a squiggly-lined style of asian language.
 * Since Ciratovia was going to be a country with lots of mixed culture, the language was made to almost sound like Japanese.
 * There is no real way to translate your own language to Ciratovian, but in some instances, Ciratovian is just a Japanese romanisation of Dutch sentences. For example Shizuka Segosangigishi's favorite sentence: "Makee-go-dzunitsu-bo-su,-wa-neteda-ne-gaji-enarodehere!" which comes from "Maak God dus niet boos want dan ga je naar de hel!"(So don't make god angry, because you'll go to hell.)