Re: Language policy

>      10. Re: Language policy
>            From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>Message: 10
>    Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 20:42:35 -0400
>    From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>Subject: Re: Language policy
>
>Adam Walker wrote:
> > Have any of your conlangs been banned at any point in their histories?
>If
> > so how did that effect their evolution??
<snip>
This isn't quite a legal ban, but it's close:
On the Island, Oeuenic [V":wen-] the speech of the landlocked splinter group
known as the Ke'ra, is not banned per se, but the neighboring dialect area
of the Birthvale is not only hostile to the Ke'ra, but rigidly conservative
in language. These two groups are as friendly as Orangemen and the IRA. The
Valemen only use pure Early Lahabic. The "Abbot" of the Birthvale is
descended from the enemies of the ancestors of the the Ke'ra kings. The
fishermen along the coast are not Ke'ra, but neither are they Valemen, and
therefore allow Ke'ra terms for everyday use, such as to enter their
dialect. An example:
the fisherfolk call their neighbors Ke'ra [ke:ra], from Oeuenic Ke'bra
[ke:Bra], and a hunting spear kewide'li' [kewide:li:], from Oeuenic
kebhide'dhle' [keBide:Dle:], but the Valemen use the terms
Gheumiyikra, Traitors, and kye'mma'khemitendlei. If a fisherman were to use
too many Ke'ra words during a visit to the capital, he might well find
himself thrown into prison on an espionage charge.
  The usual way, however, of language exstinction in the world of the Dhabra
is cultural assimilation through trade, rather than any ban on speaking
languages.
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