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Brithenig was invented neither to become used in the real world, like Esperanto, nor does it serve to provide detail to a work of fiction, like J.R.R. Tolkien's Elvish tongues, or Klingon from the Star Trek scenarios. Rather, Brithenig started as a thought experiment to create a Romance language that might have evolved if Latin had displaced Old Celtic as the spoken language of the people in Great Britain.
The result is a sister language to French, Spanish and Italian, albeit a test-tube child, which differs from them by having sound-changes similar to those that affected the Welsh language, and words that are borrowed from Old Celtic and from English throughout its pseudo-history.
Brithenig is respected among the conlang community, being the best-known example of the altlang genre. It is the first known conlang to extrapolate a real Terran language through an alternate evolution, and as such can be considered the grandfather of the genre.
Similar efforts to extrapolate Romance languages are: Breathanach (influenced by the other branch of Celtic), Judajca (influenced by Hebrew) and Wenedyk (influenced by Polish).