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BenJamin P. Johnson (“Jamin” - /ʤəˈmɪn/) was born in upstate New York some decades ago, and studied many various languages before focusing on linguistics more broadly. 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.

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Ox-Yew|Adzaay]], also know as [[Ox-Yew]], is an [[:Category: A priori|a priori]] language that is still very much under construction, without much to look at yet. It has a fairly limited but unconventional phonology (involving several types of affricates and liquids), and most of its infrastructure can be broken down into groups of three. (E.g. 3 vowels, 3 stops, 3 nasals, 3 liquids, 3 genders, 3 moods, 3 types of cases (9 cases), nonal number system (based on an earlier trinary base), tripartite morphosyntactic alignment… you get the idea.)</div>

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Alderxmanuvgöm, also known as Dhënuvgöm or simply Northern, is a language spoken in Aterra.</div>

====[[Ashian|Kéðryňa (Ashian)]]====

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Ashian is an ancient language spoken in Aterra with some influence from some pesky space-faring Old Norse speakers called the Orka.</div>

====[[Aterran Imperial|Drikva Yakke (Modern Standard Imperial)]]====

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Modern Standard Imperial is the official language of much of Aterra. Descended from a very formal fusional language, modern Imperial is very analytic, and is arguably moderately creolized, though not to the extent that would rise to the definition of a true creole. It retains a somewhat deep orthography harkening back to its ancient predecessor.</div>

 

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">Arbulian is alone among the Aterran languages in that it is not presently spoken on the planet, nor indeed even from the planet. It is highly fusional, and is spoken by an extra-aterrestrial race of deities.</div>

<div style="margin-left: 13px;">[[Maltcégj]] (BRCL:mltj) (that’s [malˈʧɛɡʒ], in case you’re wondering) is an [[:Category: A priori|a priori]] language created out of boredom and full of vicious puns. Maltcégj started as a sort of blog, before there were blogs, and has been subsequently transferred to https://blog.benjaminpauljohnson.com (keyword Maltcégj).</div>

<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;">[[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.

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