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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: Panslavic planned language?
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Organization: Esperanto League for North America, Inc.
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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 00:56:53 GMT
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miner@lark.cc.ukans.edu (Kenneth Miner) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <1995Jan21.073049.83303@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>:
>	Since there has been quite a bit of talk here about planned
>languages lately: somewhere I read of an attempt at a "limited"
>planned interlanguage for the Slavic-speaking world.  Anybody have
>any info on it?  (May have been connected with the Prague school
>I suppose.)
>
There have been a whole raft of "pan-Romance" constructed languages, 
including two of the most famous "international languages" -- 
Interlingua (Peano) and Interlingua (Gode). There have been several 
pan-Germanic languages, including Molee's Tutonish ("Vio fadr hu bi 
in hevn, holirn bi dauo nam, dauo reik kom, dauo vil bi dun an erd 
as it be in hevn"). Cheshikhin had Nepo, which I originally thought 
of as pan-Slavic, but after looking at it I came to the conclusion 
that it was very heavily based on Esperanto with a few Slavic roots 
added for spice (and he later removed the Slavic roots).

Personally, I'd like to see a pan-Celtic language developed...

>	I ask because I have a friend from Bombay who has been 
>thinking about a "limited" planned auxiliary language for India -
>as an attempt to escape the hegemony of English.  But the whole
>notion of "limited Esperantos" designed for a specific region is
>intriguing - I suppose one might think of them as constructed
>pidgins.
>
About ten years ago a young man in Nigeria invented a pan-Nigerian 
language called Guosa. Unfortunately, it simply seemed to consist 
of a collection of words and phrases _arbitrarily_ taken from 
Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and English -- there was no coherence to the 
final product. I have heard nothing more about it in the last decade.

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