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'''BenJamin P. Johnson''' (“Jamin” - /ʤəˈmɪn/) was born in upstate New York some decades ago, and studied many various languages and linguistics. He currently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his husband Terrence. He has been a member of the Language Creation Society’s Board of Directors since 2015 (with a ~~brief~~ hiatus from 2019-2021), and the LCS’s Minister of Memberships from 2016‒2019. He made a brief appearance in the 2017 film ''[http://conlangingfilm.com/ Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues]'', right around the 44-minute mark.

'''BenJamin P. Johnson''' (“Jamin” - /ʤəˈmɪn/) was born in upstate New York some decades ago, and studied many various languages and linguistics. He currently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his husband Terrence. He has been a member of the Language Creation Society’s Board of Directors since 2015 (with a hiatus from 2019-2021), and the LCS’s Minister of Memberships from 2016‒2019 and again since the spring of 2023. He made a brief appearance in the 2017 film ''[http://conlangingfilm.com/ Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues]'', right around the 44-minute mark.

==Conlangs==

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====[[Aterran Western|Western]]====

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Western is a language spoken on the western continent on Aterra.</div></div>

===[[Braereth]]===

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Braereth was a Western Romance language created for CJ Kavanaugh’s upcoming Kindle Vella series ''The Chronicles of Braereth''. The Classical language died out in the sixteenth century, but four modern dialects survive.

====[[Tenibvreth (dialect)|Tenibvreth]]====

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Tenibvreth is a dialect of Braereth spoken by the vampire clans.</div>

====[[Eomentesa (dialect)|Eomentesa]]====

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Eomentesa is a dialect of Braereth spoken by the witch clans.</div>

====[[Merineth (dialect)|Merineth]]====

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Merineth is a dialect of Braereth spoken by the mer-folk and shape-shifters.</div></div>

===[[Brooding|Brooding (Baus Broodingee)]]===

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===[[Dlatci]]===

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Dlatci]] is an [[:Category: A priori|a priori]] language that Jamin has been working on since 1994. It has undergone some massive changes over the years, though, and barely resembles its former self.</div>

===[[Europic|Europic (Yevropicu)]]===

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Europic]] is a hypothetical auxiliary language created (in-world) in the late 21st century by amateur linguist Syd Chrysanthi at the behest of the European Central Authority (a semi-dystopian future iteration of the EU). It serves as the proto-language for various languages which cannot be discussed yet, unless they appear below.

===Vulgar European (Ivropicu)===

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Vulgar European is a descendant of the auxiliary language Europic; particularly, but not exclusively, that variety of the language spoken in the Rivariu after the Reforms of 2281.

===Iropich===

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Iropich is a descendant of Late Western Europic (a.k.a. Vulgar European) spoken on the 5th arcship to leave Earth in the 26th century. It would be known to future generations as “Proto-Human.”

===Rupesh===

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Rupesh is the language spoken by the humans whose arcship crashed on Selagró in the early 36th century.

</div></div></div></div>

===[[Gothic Romance]]===

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===[[Nymeran]]===

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Nymeran]] is an [[:Category: A priori|a priori]] language originally created by Niamh ~~NíDhúill~~ for ~~Mythopoeia~~'s comic ''[https://~~www~~.~~mythopoeia.us~~/glow~~.html~~ Glow]''. Jamin has been curating and expanding the language on behalf of Mythopoeia since the spring of 2021.</div>

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Nymeran]] is an [[:Category: A priori|a priori]] language originally created by Niamh Doyle for Mythworks' comic ''[https://myth.works/pages/glow Glow]''. Jamin has been curating and expanding the language on behalf of Mythworks (formerly Mythopoeia) since the spring of 2021.</div>

===[[Valthungian|Valthungian (Sō Grējuga Tunga)]]===

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Valthungian]], or the Grey Tongue (ISO-639-3:qgt, BRCL:grey), another [[:Category: Germanic languages|Germanic]] [[:Category: A posteriori|a posteriori]], this time a close relative of Gothic. Not directly descended from [[w:Gothic_language|Gothic]], as such, but maybe a great-great-nephew. Jamin aspired to maintain a blog about it as it developed, but as you know, he’s seriously bad at that: https://blog.benjaminpauljohnson.com (keyword Valthungian). Jamin formally presented Valthungian as a theoretical descendant of Gothic at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo in 2018, which was attended by twos or even threes of people.

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Valthungian]], or the Grey Tongue (ISO-639-3:qgt, BRCL:grey), another [[:Category: Germanic languages|Germanic]] [[:Category: A posteriori|a posteriori]], this time a close relative of Gothic. Not directly descended from [[w:Gothic_language|Gothic]], as such, but maybe a great-great-nephew. Jamin aspired to maintain a blog about it as it developed, but as you know, he’s seriously bad at that: [https://blog.benjaminpauljohnson.com/search/label/Valthungian https://blog.benjaminpauljohnson.com (keyword Valthungian)]. Jamin formally presented Valthungian as a theoretical descendant of Gothic at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo in 2018, which was attended by twos or even threes of people.

====[[Middle Valthungian]]====

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 [[Category: BPNJ]]
-'''BenJamin P. Johnson''' (“Jamin” - /ʤəˈmɪn/) was born in upstate New York some decades ago, and studied many various languages and linguistics. He currently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his husband Terrence. He has been a member of the Language Creation Society’s Board of Directors since 2015 (with a brief hiatus from 2019-2021), and the LCS’s Minister of Memberships from 2016‒2019. He made a brief appearance in the 2017 film ''[http://conlangingfilm.com/ Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues]'', right around the 44-minute mark.
+'''BenJamin P. Johnson''' (“Jamin” - /ʤəˈmɪn/) was born in upstate New York some decades ago, and studied many various languages and linguistics. He currently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his husband Terrence. He has been a member of the Language Creation Society’s Board of Directors since 2015 (with a hiatus from 2019-2021), and the LCS’s Minister of Memberships from 2016‒2019 and again since the spring of 2023. He made a brief appearance in the 2017 film ''[http://conlangingfilm.com/ Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues]'', right around the 44-minute mark.
 ==Conlangs==
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 ====[[Aterran Western|Western]]====
 <div style="margin-left: 13px;">Western is a language spoken on the western continent on Aterra.</div></div>
+===[[Braereth]]===
+<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Braereth was a Western Romance language created for CJ Kavanaugh’s upcoming Kindle Vella series ''The Chronicles of Braereth''. The Classical language died out in the sixteenth century, but four modern dialects survive.
+====[[Tenibvreth (dialect)|Tenibvreth]]====
+<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Tenibvreth is a dialect of Braereth spoken by the vampire clans.</div>
+====[[Eomentesa (dialect)|Eomentesa]]====
+<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Eomentesa is a dialect of Braereth spoken by the witch clans.</div>
+====[[Merineth (dialect)|Merineth]]====
+<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Merineth is a dialect of Braereth spoken by the mer-folk and shape-shifters.</div></div>
 ===[[Brooding|Brooding (Baus Broodingee)]]===
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 ===[[Dlatci]]===
 <div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Dlatci]] is an [[:Category: A priori|a priori]] language that Jamin has been working on since 1994. It has undergone some massive changes over the years, though, and barely resembles its former self.</div>
+===[[Europic|Europic (Yevropicu)]]===
+<div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Europic]] is a hypothetical auxiliary language created (in-world) in the late 21st century by amateur linguist Syd Chrysanthi at the behest of the European Central Authority (a semi-dystopian future iteration of the EU). It serves as the proto-language for various languages which cannot be discussed yet, unless they appear below.
+===Vulgar European (Ivropicu)===
+<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Vulgar European is a descendant of the auxiliary language Europic; particularly, but not exclusively, that variety of the language spoken in the Rivariu after the Reforms of 2281.
+===Iropich===
+<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Iropich is a descendant of Late Western Europic (a.k.a. Vulgar European) spoken on the 5th arcship to leave Earth in the 26th century. It would be known to future generations as “Proto-Human.”
+===Rupesh===
+<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Rupesh is the language spoken by the humans whose arcship crashed on Selagró in the early 36th century.
+</div></div></div></div>
 ===[[Gothic Romance]]===
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 ===[[Nymeran]]===
-<div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Nymeran]] is an [[:Category: A priori|a priori]] language originally created by Niamh NíDhúill for Mythopoeia's comic ''[https://www.mythopoeia.us/glow.html Glow]''. Jamin has been curating and expanding the language on behalf of Mythopoeia since the spring of 2021.</div>
+<div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Nymeran]] is an [[:Category: A priori|a priori]] language originally created by Niamh Doyle for Mythworks' comic ''[https://myth.works/pages/glow Glow]''. Jamin has been curating and expanding the language on behalf of Mythworks (formerly Mythopoeia) since the spring of 2021.</div>
 ===[[Valthungian|Valthungian (Sō Grējuga Tunga)]]===
-<div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Valthungian]], or the Grey Tongue (ISO-639-3:qgt, BRCL:grey), another [[:Category: Germanic languages|Germanic]] [[:Category: A posteriori|a posteriori]], this time a close relative of Gothic. Not directly descended from [[w:Gothic_language|Gothic]], as such, but maybe a great-great-nephew. Jamin aspired to maintain a blog about it as it developed, but as you know, he’s seriously bad at that: https://blog.benjaminpauljohnson.com (keyword Valthungian). Jamin formally presented Valthungian as a theoretical descendant of Gothic at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo in 2018, which was attended by twos or even threes of people.
+<div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Valthungian]], or the Grey Tongue (ISO-639-3:qgt, BRCL:grey), another [[:Category: Germanic languages|Germanic]] [[:Category: A posteriori|a posteriori]], this time a close relative of Gothic. Not directly descended from [[w:Gothic_language|Gothic]], as such, but maybe a great-great-nephew. Jamin aspired to maintain a blog about it as it developed, but as you know, he’s seriously bad at that: [https://blog.benjaminpauljohnson.com/search/label/Valthungian https://blog.benjaminpauljohnson.com (keyword Valthungian)]. Jamin formally presented Valthungian as a theoretical descendant of Gothic at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo in 2018, which was attended by twos or even threes of people.
 ====[[Middle Valthungian]]====
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