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Brithenig, or also known as Comroig, 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. Officially according to the Ill Bethisad Wiki, Brithenig is classified as a Britanno-Romance language, along with other Romance languages that displaced Celtic.

Key facts

Language.name
Brithenig
Language.creator
Andrew Smith
Language.created
1996
Language.setting
A thought experiment in alternate history, Ill Bethisad, if Latin had replaced the Brittonic languages
Language.fam1
Indo-European
Language.fam2
Italic
Language.fam3
Romance
Language.fam4
Western Romance
Language.fam5
Britanno-Romance
Language.posteriori
A posteriori Romance language constructed from Vulgar Latin with a Celtic substrate
Language.iso3
bzt
Language.linglist
bzt
Language.glotto
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Andrew Smith
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1996-00-00
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Ill Bethisad
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Category:Brithenig
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Orthography
  • Phonology
  • Grammar
  • Mutation
  • Nouns and adjectives
  • Pronouns
  • Verbs
  • Regular verbs
  • Irregular verbs
  • Most irregular verbs
  • Syntax
  • Vocabulary
  • Example
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

Brithenig, or also known as Comroig, 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. Officially according to the Ill Bethisad Wiki, Brithenig is classified as a Britanno-Romance language, along with other Romance languages that displaced Celtic.

Brithenig was not developed to be used in the real world, like Volapük, Esperanto, Interlingua or Interslavic, or to provide detail to a work of fiction, like Klingon from the Star Trek franchise. 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brithenig” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.