Re: Unilang: the Lexicon

Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
> I've never seen a unilang created by anyone from the domain of a non-
> Western lingua franca.
I've *heard* of an auxlang called "Afrihili" which was designed as an
African auxiliary language.  I don't know any details, tho.

> The problem with an a priori ("out-of-thin-air") lexicon is its
> basic "unattractiveness" to the layman.
I'm of the opinion that "ease of learning" and the like is over-rated in
auxlangs.  Languages become dominant not because of any inherent
superiority, but because it's spoken by a powerful people, whether
that's political or military or economic power.  If an artificial
auxlang were ever to win out, I suspect it would be because a large
number of nations in a region (say, the European Union) decided to
require their children to learn the language, thus, after a generation
or two, that language became the regional lingua franca, and, due to
that region's economic importance, became an important language outside
that region.

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