Bogspik

Bogspik(bogspik, [ˈbogspikʲ]) is the primary English creole spoken by the Bog people. It is one of three official languages in the Smokey Dog Reservation, alongside Bògh(which is currently endangered) and English.

The endonym of the creole, bogspik, is derived from bog, "a Bog person"(from Bògh bòghm) and spik, "language, dialect, accent, manner of speaking", which is derived from the verb spikim, "to speak, to communicate"(both of which are taken from English speak).

Bogspik initially developed as a collective pidgin between speakers of Bògh and English, before developing into a stable creole sometime in the early 20th century. It was probably first used between traders, and then gradually slipped into contemporary Bògh culture.

Bogspik was first reported as its own language in 1915, when a newspaper article reported on the rift in communication between older, Bògh-speaking generations and younger predominantly English-speaking generations. Near the end of the article, the author jokingly refers to the new speech of the younger generations as "bogspeak", probably as a reference to the concept of doublespeak in George Orwell's 1984. Though evidently being a joke, the term "bogspeak", ironically, stuck with the "bogspeakers" themselves, and from then on the creole was colloquially, then later on officially, considered bogspik.