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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Panslavic planned language?
Message-ID: <D2x62v.974@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <1995Jan21.073049.83303@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <donhD2s7yu.EoK@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 17:04:05 GMT
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In article <donhD2s7yu.EoK@netcom.com> donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW) writes:
>miner@lark.cc.ukans.edu (Kenneth Miner) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <1995Jan21.073049.83303@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>:
>>[...] somewhere I read of an attempt at a "limited"
>>planned interlanguage for the Slavic-speaking world.  [...]
>>
>There have been a whole raft of "pan-Romance" constructed languages, 
>including two of the most famous "international languages" -- 
>Interlingua (Peano) and Interlingua (Gode).

Those probably shouldn't count as `limited' planned interlanguages,
because their authors intended them to be used by everybody, not just
the Romance-speaking world.  But, yes, there are several pan-Slavic ones.
I wonder if they are supposed to be free of the godawful complexity of
the morphologies of the natural languages of the branch, and, if not,
what's the point of having them.

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

A couple of years ago there was a lot of talk on the Gaelic list about
creating a pan-Q-Celtic language out of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx,
as a means for preventing the extinction of all three.  I don't know
what happened, though.

>About ten years ago a young man in Nigeria invented a pan-Nigerian 
>language called Guosa.

Would a pan-Bantu language be called Nglosa?  :-)

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Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)
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