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Re: Picto & Dil

From:Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...>
Date:Saturday, April 16, 2005, 18:38
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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