Re: The Language Code, take 2 (or 3)

Dirk:
> 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?
I agree with your argument and conclusions, but modern Cornish is an
example of a language that's difficult to place on the continuum:

* nobody speaks it as a L1
* it has been partly reconstructed rather than merely revived
* it has had schisms such as auxlangs are prone to
* like auxlangs, it tends to attract amateur enthusiasts rather than
academic linguists or ordinary speakers that just need a medium of
quotidian communication

--And.