[Membroj] Brithenig - conlang

[Ralph Dumain]

For nerds only:

Brithenig is an invented language, or 
<http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Constructed_language>constructed 
language
Constructed language

A planned or constructed language?known 
Colloquialism or informally as a conlang?is a 
language whose phonology, grammar, and/or 
vocabulary have been consciously devised by an 
individual or group, instead of having evolved natural languagely....
  ("conlang"). It was created as a hobby in 1996 
by Andrew Smith from 
<http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/New_Zealand>New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the 
south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main 
landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, 
most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
, who also invented the 
<http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Alternate_history_%28fiction%29>alternate 
history
Alternate history (fiction)

Alternate history or alternative history is a 
Genre of speculative fiction and historical 
fiction that is set in a world in which history 
has diverged from the actual history of the world....
  of Ill Bethisad to "explain" it.

Brithenig was not developed to be used in the 
real world, like <http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Esperanto>Esperanto
Esperanto

is the most widely spoken constructed language 
international auxiliary language in the world. 
Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L....
  or <http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Interlingua>Interlingua
Interlingua

Interlingua is an international auxiliary 
language , developed between 1937 and 1951 by the 
International Auxiliary Language Association . It 
is the second or third most widely used IAL and 
the most widely used International auxiliary 
language#Classification IAL: in other words, its 
vocabulary, grammar and other characteristics are largely...
, nor to provide detail to a work of fiction, 
like J.R.R. Tolkien's Elvish tongues or 
<http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Klingon_language>Klingon
Klingon language

The Klingon language is the constructed language 
spoken by Klingons in the fictional Star Trek 
universe. Deliberately designed by Marc Okrand to 
be "alien", it contains many peculiarities, such 
as Object Verb Subject word order....
  from the <http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Star_Trek>Star Trek
Star Trek

Star Trek is an American Science fiction on 
television entertainment series and media 
franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe 
created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six 
television series including the original 1966 
Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to 
ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
  scenarios. Rather, Brithenig started as a 
thought experiment to create a 
<http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Romance_languages>Romance
Romance languages

The Romance languages are a branch of the 
Indo-European languages comprising all the 
languages that descend from Latin language, the language of ancient Rome....
  language that might have evolved if 
<http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Latin>Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken 
in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military 
history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread 
throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
  had displaced Old 
<http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Celtic_languages>Celtic
Celtic languages

The Celtic languages are descended from 
Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic", a branch of the 
greater Indo-European languages language family. 
The term "Celtic" was used to describe this 
language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, having 
much earlier been used by Greek and Roman writers 
to describe tribes in central Gaul....
  as the spoken language of the people in 
<http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Great_Britain>Great Britain
Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest 
of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands 
by area, and the largest in Europe. With a 
population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
.

The result is a sister language to 
<http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/French_language>French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the 
world by around 80 million people as first 
language, by 190 million as second language, and 
by about another 200 million people as an 
acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
, <http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Spanish_language>Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that 
originated in northern Spain, and gradually 
spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into 
the principal language of government and trade....
  and <http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Italian_language>Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 
million people as a first language, primarily in 
Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four 
Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
, albeit a test-tube child, which differs from 
them by having sound-changes similar to those 
that affected the 
<http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Welsh_language>Welsh language
Welsh language

Welsh ]], is a member of the Brythonic branch of 
Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, in 
England by some along the Welsh Marches and in 
the Welsh settlement in Argentina in the Chubut 
Valley in Argentina Patagonia....
, and words that are borrowed from Old Celtic and 
from <http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/English_language>English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that 
originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua 
franca status in many parts of the world as a 
result of the military, economic, scientific, 
political and cultural influence of the British 
Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries 
and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
  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) and 
<http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Wenedyk>Wenedyk
Wenedyk

Wenedyk is a constructed language of the 
naturalistic kind, created by the Dutch 
translator Jan van Steenbergen. It is used in the 
fictional Republic of the Two Crowns , in the 
alternate history of Ill Bethisad....
  (influenced by Polish). It has also inspired 
Wessisc, a hypothetical Germanic language 
influenced by contact with Old Celtic.

Brithenig was granted the code BZT as part of 
<http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/ISO_639:b>ISO 639-3
ISO 639:b

------------------------

+ pluaj detaloj

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Brithenig

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://esperantosocieto.org/pipermail/membroj_esperantosocieto.org/attachments/20091102/382d5e01/attachment.html>