Re: Picto & Dil

In a message dated 4/16/2005 11:54:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tsfsi@WEB.DE
writes:

>Sounds a cool language. But Dil was only developed and did not spread as a
>spoken language? (Question is self-answering).
The only place I'd heard of Dil (before you mentioned it) was in Libert's
book, so apparently Dil, like many other modifications of Volapuk, never got very
far.

>How does the tradition come that all conlangers give info on the first
>numbers? 1-9?
Someone whose name escapes me writes to this list now & then asking everyone
to supply the numbers 1-10 in their conlangs.  That's what prompted me to
include the numbers in my list of Dil facts.  (1-9 happened to be in a handy
table, so I quoted those.   For the record, ten is "unez", and twenty is "tunez", &
presumably this pattern runs through ninety.)

Doug

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