If you’re a fan of language construction or prehistoric fiction, you might have heard of — a unique constructed language created for the 2016 video game Far Cry Primal . Unlike most game languages (like Dothraki or Na’vi), Wenja isn’t spoken by elves or aliens, but by fictional prehistoric tribes in Central Europe around 10,000 BCE. What is Wenja? Wenja is the language of the Wenja tribe, one of the main groups in Far Cry Primal . It was developed by linguist and language creator Brennan Connolly and his team at Gaming University , with input from experts in Proto-Indo-European (PIE) linguistics. Real Roots, Fictional Words Connolly didn’t start from scratch. He based Wenja on Proto-Indo-European — the reconstructed ancestor of hundreds of modern languages (English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian, etc.). By applying sound changes and grammatical rules backward, he created a language that feels ancient, guttural, yet strangely familiar.

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