Re: Internally artificial conlangs (Was: Re: T-Shirt)

There is a peculiar language floating around in the Brithenig universe,
which is called Pictw.  The linguists of that alternative timeline are
still undecided whether it is a conlang or not.  The oldest available
documents are a reference grammar and a Pictw-Brithenig dictionary
both written by an 18th-century local clergyman.  That clergyman claimed
that he recorded a near-extinct language which was already spoken in
Britain before the Elves came there, but there are no traces whatsoever
of its former existence besides those two books.

Now, that clergyman had a lot of crazy ideas about Atlantis, the Elves
and the Picts, which casts a dubious light on the matter.  It doesn't
help that the language resembles an odd mix of Basque and Afro-Asiatic,
and is riddled with typological oddities.

(No, I haven't worked out the language yet.  All I "know" about it is
the following: it is ergative, mostly agglutinative in morphology,
has quite a lot of cases, construct state, initial consonant mutations
and triconsonantal roots.)

Which reminds me:

Why has no-one yet mentioned the two most famous con-conlangs, namely
Newspeak and Black Speech?

Jörg.