Re: CHAT: weird names,was Re: conlanging,the ultimate feminist

Irina Rempt-Drijfhout scripsit:

> > Rhaeto-Romance,
>
> That's the same as "Romansch" isn't it?
Plus Friulian and Ladin.

> > Dalmatian (died out in
> > the 16th century),
>
> He asked for "modern" and probably meant "spoken now" <check
> calendar> no, I don't think we're in the 16th century :-)
I should have said "19th century", which is fairly modern.

> Probably also Interlingua and Latino Sine Flexione if we're counting
> *everything*.
And about 25 Romance creoles, of which Haitian Creole French is the
largest (7.3 million speakers in all countries, at least 90% monolingual).
Lesser Antilles Creole French, which has several varieties, has over
1 million speakers, and the French-based creole spoken on Reunion (an
island in the Pacific) has nearly that many.

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