Editing Artistic language (section)

=== Alternative languages ===

'''Alternative languages''', or ''altlangs'', speculate on an alternate history and try to reconstruct how a family of natural languages would have evolved if things had been different, e.g.: What if Greek civilization had gone on to thrive without a Roman Empire, leaving [[Greek language|Greek]] and not [[Latin]] to develop several modern descendants? The language that ''would have'' evolved is then traced step by step in its evolution, to reach its modern form. An altlang will typically base itself on the core vocabulary of one language and the phonology of another.

The best-known language of this category is [[Brithenig]], which initiated the interest among Internet conlangers in devising such alternate-historical languages, like [[Venedic language|Wenedyk]]. Brithenig attempts to determine how Romance languages would have evolved had Roman influence in Britain been sufficient to replace Celtic languages with [[Vulgar Latin]], and bases its phonology on that of [[Welsh language|Welsh]]. An earlier instance is [[Philip José Farmer]]'s [[Winkie language]], a relative of the [[Germanic languages]] spoken by the Winkies of Oz in ''A Barnstormer in Oz''. Another example is [[Linguistic purism in English|Anglish]], which tries to reconstruct how English could have looked without Latin influence.

Although technically a professional fictional language, [[Wenja language|Wenja]], used in the video game [[Far Cry Primal]] is an attempt an reconstructing an earlier stage of [[Proto-Indo-European]], before the appearance of characteristics such as [[grammatical gender|gender]], [[ablaut]] or the [[s-mobile]], to name a few.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Zorine Te|title=Far Cry Primal Developers Talk About Uncovering History|url=http://www.gamespot.com/articles/far-cry-primal-developers-talk-about-uncovering-hi/1100-6434103/|website=GameSpot|access-date=February 8, 2016|date=January 26, 2016}}</ref>