Brithenig
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- Language: Brithenig
- Created: 1996
- Alternate names: -
- SIL-code: -
- Language family: Conlang
- Number of speakers: -
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
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 J.R.R. Tolkien's Elvish tongues or 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 Old Celtic as the spoken language of the people in Great Britain.
The verb
The verb conjugations are complex, characterized by initial consonant mutations.
Sample verb: partir
| Indicative | Condicional | Subjunctive | Participles | |||||
| Present | Imperfect | Past definite | Future | Present | Past | |||
| Sg.1 | bart | bartif | bartif | aibartir | ewbartir | bart | bartis | Present: partin |
| Sg.2 | bart | bartif | bartif | abartir | ewbartir | bart | bartis | |
| Sg.3 | part | partif | partist | partira | partirew | part | partis | |
| Pl.1 | phartin | phartifan | phartifan | anphartir | ewnphartir | phartan | phartissen | Past: partid |
| Pl.2 | phartith | phartifath | phartist | athphartir | ewthphartir | phartath | phartisseth | |
| Pl.3 | phartint | phartifant | phartirent | antphartir | ewntphartir | phartant | phartissent | |
Sample verbs
Click verbs to conjugate them in the table above!
cantar, comer, partir.
- Brithenig Verb List with 50 verbs.
Irregular verb: gweddir
| Indicative present | |
|---|---|
| Sg.1 | wa |
| Sg.2 | wa |
| Sg.3 | gwa |
| Pl.1 | wan |
| Pl.2 | wath |
| Pl.3 | want |