A conversation in Hharmari.
In The Golden Net, Hharmari is framed as a current day, stable language that was born out of a much older pidgin language. This pidgin language was used by fishermen, seashell divers, and people who traded with them in a fictional version of the coastal areas around the Pyrenees.
Historic trading areas, with the coast of the Green Sea highlighted in black.
The language mainly pulls from Spanish, Basque, French, Catalan, and Occitan for its vocabulary and grammar, though it also has some features from other languages, like ideophones, logograms, and large compound words (both ones that have arisen naturally, and ones used for artistic effect.)
Examples of ideophones, logograms, and compound words in Hharmari.
The story text uses the language a little bit, but not to the point where you'd need a dictionary handy. Instead, the focus is more on mimicking the rhythm of the language though the use of hyphenated compound words and ideophones. This is in order to make the sensory descriptions more vivid, strange, and kinetic. Some artwork titles are also written in Hharmari, like Hharil d'Ex, Term d'Uta, and Ne merluch k'z'ehhisa, and certain logograms of character names appear within the artworks themselves.
Hharmari logograms.
You can see a full table of Hharmari's script here.
Why develop a whole language if it's not extensively used in the story text, though?