Re: Ethnologue

Hi folks,

Without getting in to an IAL discussion, does anyone else think
Ethnologue's latest inclusion of three auxlangs to be ... I dunno
... a little odd?  I say odd because it gives France as the country
where Esperanto and Interlingua are spoken.  I think it's great that
the two are included - as they are real spoken languages (merits and
demerits aside), but I think saying "France" is where they are
spoken is a little odd.  Why France?  Is there something the rest of
my fellow frogs aren't telling me?  Christophe??

What strikes me as even odder is its inclusion - at all - of
"Europanto."  Ethnologue says it's spoken in "European Union
buildings" in Brussels "for use among members of the European
Union."  Wasn't Europanto a parody and not meant to be serious?

Back in to natlangs, I was surprised to see that Ethnologue now
includes "Yinglish" but not "Singlish" or "Ebonics."  (and frankly I
think there's more of a case for including Singapore Colloquial
English and African American Vernacular English)

I'm going to see if I can get the editors to consider adding
"Eamonglish."

Cheers,
Eamon

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