Wenedyk
Wenedyk (in English: Venedic) is a naturalistic
constructed language, created by the Dutch translator Jan van Steenbergen (who also co-created the international auxiliary language
Slovianski). It is used in the fictional Republic of the Two Crowns (based on the
Republic of Two Nations), in the
alternate timelineof
Ill Bethisad. Officially, Wenedyk is a descendant of
Vulgar Latin with a strong
Slavic admixture, based on the premise that the
Roman Empire incorporated the ancestors of the
Poles in their territory. Less officially, it tries to show what
Polish would have looked like if it had been a
Romance instead of a
Slaviclanguage. An alternative Polish term for the language could thus be either polskowłoski, incorporating the term włoski, originally meaning
Vlach but now applied in Polish to
Italian, or polskoromański, literally "Polish-Romance". On the Internet, it is well-recognized as an example of the
altlang genre, much like
Brithenig and Breathanach.
Brithenig
Brithenig is an invented language, or
constructed language ("conlang"). It was created as a hobby in 1996 by Andrew Smith from
New Zealand, who also invented the
alternate history of
Ill Bethisad to "explain" it. Brithenig was not developed to be used in the real world, like
Esperanto or
Interlingua, nor to provide detail to a work of fiction, like
Klingon from the
Star Trek scenarios. Rather, Brithenig started as a thought experiment to create a
Romance language that might have evolved if
Latin had displaced the native
Celtic language as the spoken language of the people in
Great Britain. The result is a sister language to
French,
Catalan,
Spanish,
Portuguese,
Romanian and
Italian, albeit a test-tube child, which differs from them by having sound-changes similar to those that affected the
Welsh language, and words that are borrowed from
Brythonic and from
English throughout its pseudo-history. One important distinction between Brithenig and Welsh is that while Welsh is
P-Celtic, Latin was a Q-Italic language (as opposed to P-Italic, like
Oscan), and this trait was passed onto Brithenig. Similar efforts to extrapolate Romance languages are Breathanach (influenced by the other branch of Celtic), Judajca (influenced by Hebrew), Þrjótrunn (influenced by Icelandic),
Wenedyk (influenced by Polish), and Xliponian (which experienced a
Grimm's Law-like sound shift). It has also inspired Wessisc, a hypothetical Germanic language influenced by contact with Old Celtic.
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