Re: Auxlangs in conworlds, was Re: The Great Sundering

--- Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
wrote:

> > I would think that would make them *more*
> likely to adopt an auxlang.
> > *Here*, one obstacle to a constructed auxlang
> is that a handful of
> > very widely
> > spoken natlangs (of which English is
> currently the most prominent)
> > have been
> > available for internatinal communication.  If
> no language in IB has
> > the status that
> > English has *here*, there will be more need
> and opportunity for a
> > contructed
> > auxlang.
>
> I agree.  It becomes evident when one looks at
> when auxlanging
> was popular *here*, and compares that to the
> rises and falls of
> internationally dominant natlangs.  Most
> auxlangs were proposed
> when there was no dominant language.
We might have to revisit this facet of life in
IB. I rather like the notion that the auxlang
movement is more interested in philosophical
languages. I also think that the market isn't in
great need of planned auxlangs - there is already
in place a system of regional natural auxlangs
and pidgins/creoles. Some of this material has
even made it into mainstream natural languages:
moainey is Kerno and roughly means "shop" or
"buy". It is heard frequently enough in
Chinatown, where Cantonese hawkers call out may
nei! = you buy it! I'm sure there is a sort of
Britano-Cantonese pidgin right there in the heart
of Dûnein.


> So with the lack of a dominant international
> language,
> Ill Bethisad ought to be a fertile ground for
> auxlangs.
It could be that the auxlangers haven't offered
what it is everyone needs! ;)

> They probably haven't settled on ONE auxlang,
> though.
Almost certainly. At best, I think IB might be
suited to local auxlangs. Most countries have a
standard language, which is official; but many
regions do not comply with education in that
language. They might be served by bridge
languages that can serve broad regions of the
dialect continuum.

Padraic.


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