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BenJamin P. Johnson (“Jamin” - /ʤəˈmɪn/) was born in upstate New York some decades ago, and studied many various languages before switching his major to linguistics. He currently resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his husband Terrence. He was a member of the Language Creation Society’s Board of Directors from 2015‒2019. He makes a brief appearance in the 2017 film ''[http://conlangingfilm.com/ Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues]''.  

Grayis is an a priori language commissioned by [https://www.infinitemind.pictures/ Infinite Mind Pictures, Inc.], spoken by a race of aliens called the Grayis Kin.

Maltcégj is an 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).

Valthungian, or the Grey Tongue, another Germanic a posteriori, this time a close relative of Gothic. Not directly descended from 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.

[[Middle Valthungian]] represents a period in the development of [[Valthungian]] lasting from around 1200‒1600aD marked mainly by palatalization of a great many consonants as well as some minor reduction to unstressed vowels. Though this is a range which experienced many changes, the most representative example of “Middle Valthungian” is the language as captured by the suddenly-prolific Valthungian writers at the beginning of the Renaissance, circa 1450‒1500aD

[[Old Valthungian]] represents a period in the development of [[Valthungian]] lasting from around 800‒1200aD marked mainly by changes to geminates and intervocalic consonants, as well as the introduction of Germanic ī/j-umlaut and some small but important changes to all of the vowels. Though this is a range which experienced many changes, the most representative example of “Old Valthungian” is the language as captured in a few surviving texts believed to date to around 950‒975aD

[[Griutungi]] is the theoretical ancestor of [[Valthungian]] which was likely a dialect of, or at least mutually intelligible with, [[w:Gothic_language|Gothic]].