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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: The cousins of esperanto?
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In article <3if5kr$rq4@mordred.cc.jyu.fi>
           jorma@jytko.jyu.fi "Jorma Kyppo" writes:
> Could someone give information about other artificial languages
> than (and) esperanto.
> Volapuk?
> How many they are and how many of them are living? And how many
> speakers?
> 
> On which languages do they base on? What is their diffrence in use,
> I mean, that are they also specialized on certain context as
> different computer languages?
> 
> What kind could be an optimal artificial language?

As with computer languages, it's a question of what do you want to
optimise for? Some possibilities are: ease of learning, similarity to 
other languages, compactness of use.

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Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
Majority rule for Britain!
