Everything about Venedic totally explained
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's 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's 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
The Lord's Prayer:
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.
Further Information
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