#brithenig

[alternatehistorian]

We finish off the 90s with a look at soc.history.what-if and its impact on alternate history.

[dedalvs]

Hey David! Would you recommend me to search a conlang that is evolved from a natural language like Trigedasleng?

Off the top of my head, I recommend Brithenig. Won the Smiley Award back in 2013. A very good example of a naturalistic a posteriori conlang.

[yourfavespeaksaconlang]

Rika Furude (from Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni) speaks Brithenig

Rika Furude from Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni speaks Brithenig!

[aescheretalks]

Sa'r sulfent yn sein. Calfath a phuinar, eo ci, ty's segyr.

It was only a dream. Don't worry, I'm here, you are safe.

[dedalvs]

Hey, do people ever make constructed varieties of natural languages?

Yes indeed! This is a branch of a posteriori conlanging. “A posteriori” in the context of conlanging means deriving the grammar and vocabulary from an already existing source. Sometimes that’s creating an auxlang, like Esperanto, whose grammar and vocabulary come primarily from Romance languages, but sometimes conlangers will create a posteriori artlangs, where the goal is to create another plausible (or perhaps lost) sister/daughter language from a specific language family. Another popular type of a posteriori language is to take a given language and apply another’s language sound changes to it—like Jan van Steenbergen’s Wenedyk or Andrew Smith’s Brithenig. The results are always cool to look at! So yeah, stuff like this does exist, but it often doesn’t get a lot of attention outside the conlanging community. Thanks for the ask!

[intheologus]

Hobbit Spotting

A friend read my blog and asked me where I was.  I’m across town in an old house halfway between Columba Collge and the green belt.  It’s an old character house.  This is a nice way of saying it could be warmer,.  The owners are away until the end of the month on a tour across Northern Ireland, Scotland and England.  Mostly cathedrals.  Every so often I see a little photo story from St Magnus in…

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[dedalvs]

Brithenig may not have been the first altlang, but amongst the altlangs of the early 90s it's the best known, and one of the most highly regarded. Furthermore, it gave rise to an entire movement within the online conlanging community, and either directly or indirectly inspired a number of other excellent conlangs (some of which will likely be getting Smileys in the future).

Congratulations to Andrew Smith, creator of Brithenig!

[dedalvs]

Hey! I'm a huge fan of the show and your work and I find the detail end effort you invest to be phenomenal :) ! I was just wondering what other show/movie/developed languages you like the most or that you think are extremely complex in structure?

I’m glad you asked! There are a bunch of conlangs I’m a fan of, but I’ve awarded seven of them (so far) a Smiley Award. I established the Smiley Award several years back just to give recognition to conlangs, since conlangs didn’t get much recognition back then (and those that aren’t attached to media franchises still don’t). I have yet to write up this year’s, but I’ve got one in the works.