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For nerds only:<br><br>
<b>Brithenig</b> is an invented language, or
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Constructed_language">
constructed language</a><br>
Constructed language<br><br>
A <b>planned</b> or <b>constructed language</b>?known Colloquialism or
informally as a <b>conlang</b>?is a language whose phonology, grammar,
and/or vocabulary have been consciously devised by an individual or
group, instead of having evolved natural languagely....<br>
("conlang"). It was created as a hobby in 1996 by Andrew
Smith from
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/New_Zealand">New
Zealand</a><br>
New Zealand<br><br>
<b>New Zealand</b> 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....<br>
, who also invented the
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Alternate_history_%28fiction%29">
alternate history</a><br>
Alternate history (fiction)<br><br>
<b>Alternate history</b> or <b>alternative history</b> 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....<br>
of Ill Bethisad to "explain" it.<br><br>
Brithenig was not developed to be used in the real world, like
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Esperanto">Esperanto</a>
<br>
Esperanto<br><br>
is the most widely spoken constructed language international auxiliary
language in the world. Its name derives from <i>Doktoro Esperanto,</i>
the pseudonym under which L....<br>
or
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Interlingua">
Interlingua</a><br>
Interlingua<br><br>
<b>Interlingua</b> 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...<br>
, nor to provide detail to a work of fiction, like J.R.R. Tolkien's
Elvish tongues or
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Klingon_language">
Klingon</a><br>
Klingon language<br><br>
The <b>Klingon language</b> 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....<br>
from the
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Star_Trek">Star
Trek</a><br>
Star Trek<br><br>
<b><i>Star Trek</i></b> is an American Science fiction on television
entertainment series and media franchise. The <i>Star Trek</i> fictional
universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television
series including the original 1966 <i>Star Trek: The Original Series</i>,
in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May
8,...<br>
scenarios. Rather, Brithenig started as a thought experiment to
create a
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Romance_languages">
Romance</a><br>
Romance languages<br><br>
The <b>Romance languages</b> are a branch of the Indo-European languages
comprising all the languages that descend from Latin language, the
language of ancient Rome....<br>
language that might have evolved if
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Latin">Latin</a><br>
Latin<br><br>
<b>Latin</b> 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....<br>
had displaced Old
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Celtic_languages">
Celtic</a><br>
Celtic languages<br><br>
The <b>Celtic languages</b> 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....<br>
as the spoken language of the people in
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Great_Britain">Great
Britain</a><br>
Great Britain<br><br>
<b>Great Britain</b> 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....<br>
.<br><br>
The result is a sister language to
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/French_language">
French</a><br>
French language<br><br>
<b>French</b> 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....<br>
,
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Spanish_language">
Spanish</a><br>
Spanish language<br><br>
<b>Spanish</b> or <b>Castilian</b> 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....<br>
and
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Italian_language">
Italian</a><br>
Italian language<br><br>
<b>Italian</b> 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....<br>
, albeit a test-tube child, which differs from them by having
sound-changes similar to those that affected the
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Welsh_language">Welsh
language</a><br>
Welsh language<br><br>
<b>Welsh</b> ]], 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....<br>
, and words that are borrowed from Old Celtic and from
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/English_language">
English</a><br>
English language<br><br>
<b>English</b> is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon
England and has <i>lingua franca</i> 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...<br>
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.<br><br>
Similar efforts to extrapolate Romance languages are: <i>Breathanach</i>
(influenced by the other branch of Celtic), <i>Judajca</i> (influenced by
Hebrew), <i>Þrjótrunn</i> (influenced by Icelandic) and
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Wenedyk"><i>Wenedyk</a>
<br>
Wenedyk<br><br>
<b>Wenedyk</b> 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</i> , in the alternate history of
Ill Bethisad....<br>
(influenced by Polish). It has also inspired <i>Wessisc</i>, a
hypothetical Germanic language influenced by contact with Old
Celtic.<br><br>
Brithenig was granted the code BZT as part of
<a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/ISO_639:b">ISO
639-3</a><br>
ISO 639:b<br><br>
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