Quoting Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>:
> My question is whether there is an attested language which lies more
> or
> less in the middle; that is, a language which is "halfway" between
> planning and natural growth.
>
> Esperanto -- Interlingua ------------- ? ---------------- B.I. --
> Chemehuevi
>
> I'm asserting that such a language does not exist; all languages will
> cluster at one end or the other. That being the case, the continuum
> really isn't one, and the dichotomy between constructed and
> natural/ethnic is a real one.
>
> Any takers?
Perhaps reconstructed languages (reconlangs!) like Modern Hebrew and
Katharevousa Greek (which I've no doubt misspelt badly).
Andreas