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From: Vittorio Barabino <ETHEVBAR@lshtm.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: "Simplified" Arabic as an IAL?
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Robert Moldenhauer wrote:
> 
> I am curious, has anyone attempted to create a "simplified" Arabic?
> Something with regular plurals, grammar and vowels?  This would
> provide an easy entry into the language for non-Semitic language
> speakers.
> 
> I think Arabic would make an excellent International Auxillary
> Language, it's so very expressive.

Excuse me, but I think that creating an artificial language doesn't make 
sense... Esperanto has failed as an universal language, despite it is 
*really* regular and easy to learn. 

1)that synth-arabic cannot be an used in everyday life it is important 
that a language has both native living speakers (as referees) and 
literary monuments. 

2)the arabic cannot be used as an international language because the 
states where an interantional language is spoken must have a certain 
degree of political primacy (like France in XVI-XVIII century and USA 
today): until the arabic states are so weak they can't defeat even a 
medium-little state like israel, the arabic language is charmless, 
literary purposes apart. :-(((


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