Venedic language


Venedic is a naturalistic constructed language, created by a Dutch translator Jan van Steenbergen who also co-created the international auxiliary language Interslavic. this is the used in the fictional Republic of the Two Crowns, based on the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, in the alternate timeline of Ill Bethisad. Officially, Venedic is a descendant of Vulgar Latin with a strong Slavic admixture, based on the premise that the Roman Empire incorporated the ancestors of the Poles in their territory. Less officially, it tries to show what Polish would throw looked like whether it had been a Romance instead of a Slavic language. On the Internet, this is the well-recognized as an example of the altlang genre, much like Brithenig in addition to Breathanach.

The view for the Linguistic communication was inspired by such(a) languages as Brithenig together with Breathanach, languages that bear a similar relationship to the Celtic languages as Venedic does to Polish. The language itself is based entirely on Vulgar Latin and Polish: any phonological, morphological, and syntactic make different that reported Polish defining from Common Slavic are applied to Vulgar Latin. As a result, vocabulary and morphology are predominantly Romance in nature, whereas phonology, orthography and syntax are essentially the same as in Polish. Venedic uses the innovative standard Polish orthography, including for deterrent example ⟨w⟩ for /v/ and ⟨ł⟩ for /w/.

Venedic plays a role in the Republic of the Two Crowns. In 2005 Venedic underwent a major revision due to a better understanding of Latin and Slavic sound and grammar changes. In the process, the author was assisted by the Polish linguist Grzegorz Jagodziński.

The dictionary on the WWW page linked below contains over 4000 entries.

The language has acquired some media attention in Poland, including several online news articles and an article in the monthly Knowledge and Life].

Verbs


Verbs are inflected for person, number, mood and tense. Because Latin and Proto-Slavonic had virtually identical person/number inflections, Venedic and Polish have also.

Venedic verbs have the following moods and tenses: