Ill Bethisad ("the universe" in Brithenig) had as its origins the constructed world and history devised by Andrew Smith of New Zealand where his constructed language (called Brithenig) exists. Brithenig itself is a constructed Romance language based on the premise that the Latin spoken in Roman Britain did not die out but rather developped into a modern Romance language akin to Spanish and French. Since its original conception, Brithenig has attracted a number of fans who have either created their own conlangs within Ill Bethisad, a term that has come to be applied to the constructed reality of this alternate timeline, or else have contributed to shaping its history and cultures. Check out Ill Bethisad, the Movie here, while you're in the neighbourhood. Apart from being Pretty Damned Clever, it sums up what's going on in a nutshell.
Our teams of cartographers have prepared a number of maps to help describe this other world. Find out where you are by flipping through the Atlas Page which contains many maps of the world and some localities. There is also another atlas which can be accessed via this site.
Check out the News Page for news releases from Ill Bethisad. The News Desk is kept very busy collating reports from all corners of Ill Bethisad!
The Ill Bethisad Wiki is an excellent database of work being done on Ill Bethisad.
Few references can ever be truly complete - and this Page is no exception. Naturally, I have not archived the information found on individual Members' pages linked below. There is also a lot of information to be gleaned from the old Sessiwn Kemres, which was a private email list concerned mostly with the discussion of Brithenig. However, as more people got interested (especially me), Questions got asked about the world of the Brithenig speakers. Anyone interested in Ill Bethisad should peruse this Archive; hints at things that are now more fully revealed can be found there. Undoubtedly, things long forgotten also lurk in the corners...
If coats of arms and military uniforms are of interest, this site is for you. M's MIscellany contains sections on arms of various Ill Bethisad countries and military uniforms. See also the Royal Kemrese Institute for the Study of Flags.
Here you can see all the Flags of Ill Bethisad, which include present and historical flags of countries, provinces and other entities.
Below are the links to various pages devoted to the languages and cultures devised by the participants in Ill Bethisad. The List is the current listing of participants and what parts of the world they're working on.
Kerno is a minority language, spoken in the Province of Dûnein in the southwest of Brithenig dominated Kemr. Find out a little about the language here.
Click here for the "Page of Brithenig", the site where more information on Brithenig can be found: its grammar and quite a lot of information on the people that speak it. Andrew has a short Ill Bethisad page of his own in which he describes the phenomenon that he is responsible (if that's the right word) for bringing about.
Breathanach is a sister language to Brithenig. It too is based on the premise of Romance language survival in Britain. While Brithenig is spoken roughly in what we call Wales and Cornwall; Breathanach is spoken in Southwestern Scotland, in Galloway and thereabouts (old Gododdin and Strathclyde).
Wessisc is an unrelated, but neighbouring language, based on the premise that the native P-Celtic langauge of the Isle of Wight merged with the language of the Saxon invaders. At this site, you can find information on the Wessisc tongue and about the Isle of Wight as well.
Arvorec is a P-Celtic conlang situated in the lovely and picturesque islands in the British Sea. Read here to find out about their language, culture and religions.
Seimi is a conlang based on North Saami (a relative of Finnish), residing up in the Shetland Islands. This is Daniel Andréason's work, but since it seems to have disapeared from its original home, I thought it a good idea to host the Seimi page here at IB.
Dalmatika is a constructed Romance langauge of the Balkan region.
You can read about Eastern Europe and Russia in Ill Bethisad at this site. It contains links to most of the countries in that part of the world. Find out about the Wenedyk language here.
Find out about Nasesk Vesemir here; and about the Kingdom of Bohemia here.
Montrei is a lovely country along the western coasts of North America. Find out about it here!
For a real fine time, be sure to visit Louisianne. Hoo-ee!
You can find out about the Irish Union here.
A neat page on the grammar of the Jovian language, spoken in the High Kingdom of Jervaine, can be found here.
Learn a little about Slevanjec here. The Slevan language is spoken chiefly in Slevania, Hungary, the RTC and in Bohemia.
Visit the lovely Adriatic country of Hoimtat Xliponia, a Romance speaking kingdom of diminutive size but energetic in nature crammed between Albania and Greece. Definitely worth a visit!
Part of the Romanian Federation, one of our newer web sites describes the Principality of Oltenia. Come bask in this Carpathian paradise along the river Olt!
Our newest addition is sure to please the ecotourist and adventurer alike. Tucked away in the eastern Pacific is Te Pito O Te Henua, or the Kingdom of the Easter Islands.
Our presence is documented at Wikipedia as well as at Unipedia. The former gives a fuller description of Ill Bethisad and how it works; the latter contains a much shorter article.
Click A-M and N-Y for the Conlang Ethnologue, a listing and description of a number of Conlangs both in Ill Bethisad and without. Many have links.
New to conlanging? Check out these USEFUL LINKS to all the various constructed languages related email lists. Plus there a number of links to excellent conlang related sites.
EST. May 2001; Last Updated on the Feast of the Great C to C-Flat Transposition by
Padraic Brown
Unless specifically noted, the Content of this and all subordinate Ill Bethisad pages are copyright © 1997-2008 by Padraic Brown. The Content of other Ill Bethisad pages are copyright by their creators. Any reseblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. But you knew that already.
The contents of this and all subordinate webpages are hereby declared LEGAL for exportation to all European countries.
The contents of this and all subordinate webpages are fictional. For the hard of understanding, that means these pages reflect the Dream Time, not the Waking Time. The contents of this and all subordinate webpages are also hereby declared free from Unsafe Content and are suitable for all viewers.
This website is a member of the Ill Bethisad Webring. You are very welcome to enter and view the other Ill Bethisad related sites!
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