Kreluri

Kreluri is a lostlang project by Jörg Rhiemeier, currently in the preparatory state. It is distantly related to the Kartvelian family, located in Southern Thuringia, Germany.

The idea for this language emerged when the author found out that the first Neolithic farmers of Central Europe (the Linearbandkeramik culture) were genetically similar to modern Georgians (such as G2a being the most common Y-DNA haplogroup) and could have spoken a language related to Kartvelian.

The name Kreluri has a long history and probably descends from Klingonen, the German plural of Klingon. A cousin of the author coined the name Kreloren, probably as a disfiguration of Klingonen, for an alien warrior race; this was later amended by Rhiemeier to Kreluri, used in several short-lived space opera settings, and finally picked up for the Para-Kartvelian lostlang because he felt it sounds like a Kartvelian language name (such names often end in -uli or -uri in Georgian). The Kreluri language, however, has no connection to Klingon.