| Wenedyk | ||
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| Created by: | Jan van Steenbergen | 2002 |
| Setting and usage: | The (fictional) Republic of the Two Crowns, in the alternate timeline of Ill Bethisad | |
| Total speakers: | — | |
| Category (purpose): | constructed languages artistic languages alternative languages Wenedyk |
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| Category (sources): | constructed languages a posteriori languages (hypothetical Romance language based on Polish) |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | art | |
| ISO 639-3: | — | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Wenedyk (in English: Venedic) 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 (based on the Republic of Two Nations), in the alternate timeline of Ill Bethisad. Officially, Wenedyk 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 have looked like if it had been a Romance instead of a Slavic language. An alternative Polish term for the language could thus be either włoskopolski, incorporating the term włoski, originally meaning Vlach but now applied in Polish to Italian, or polskoromański, literally "Polish-Romance". The idea for the language was inspired by such languages as Brithenig, Breathanach and Kerno, languages that bear a similar relationship to the Celtic languages as Wenedyk does to Polish. The language itself is based entirely on (Vulgar) Latin and Polish: all phonological, morphological, and syntactic changes that made Polish develop from Common Slavic are applied to Vulgar Latin. On the Internet, it is well-recognized as an example of the altlang genre, much like Brithenig and Breathanach. Wenedyk plays a role in the alternate history of Ill Bethisad, where it is one of the official languages of the Republic of the Two Crowns. In 2005 Wenedyk underwent a major revision due to a better understanding of Latin and Slavic sound and grammar changes. The dictionary on the WWW page linked below contains over 3000 entries. The language has acquired some attention in Poland, including a few online news articles and an article in the monthly Wiedza i Życie ("Knowledge and Life").
Example
Potrze nostry, kwały jesz en czałór, sąciewkaty si twej numię.
Owień twej rzeń.
Foca si twa włątać, komód en czału szyk i sur cierze.
Da nów odzej nostry pań kocidzany.
I dziemieć nów nostrze dziewta, komód i nu dziemiećmy swór dziewtorzór.
I nie endycz nosz en ciętaceń, uta liwra nosz dzie mału.
Nąk twie są rzeń i pociestać i głurza, o siąprz. Amen.
References
- Dorota Gut: Now@ Mow@ ("New Language"), Wiedza i Życie, February 2004: This article is mostly, but not exclusively, about Wenedyk.
- Tilman Berger: Vom Erfinden Slavischer Sprachen: Cites Wenedyk as an example of Slavic-based extrapolated conlangs.
External links
- Wenedyk (in English)
