Re: Language in use

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:17:45 -0500, Ph. D. <phild@...> wrote:
> Yann Kiraly wrote:
>
> > Do any of you know conlangs that are in use by more than,
> > say, three people besides klingon and esperanto? And, if
> > you don't, do you know any klingon lessons?
>
> Aren't there a couple of organizations still pushing (Gode's)
> Interlingua?  Some years ago I remember seeing magazine
> advertisements from "Union Mundial d'Interlingua" inviting
> readers to learn more about the language.
Not sure whether this is the same one, but "Interlingua de IALA"
appears to have a small community of speakers and a respectable
Wikipedia, to boot (
http://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Frontispicio , with over 1000
articles).

Ah, http://www.interlingua.com/ mentions the "Union Mundial pro
Interlingua". The language is also the official language of the
europa.* Usenet hierarchy (used to name the newsgroups, for example).

On a vaguely unrelated note, I read somewhere that most people who
learned Volapük in the past 50-ish years are Esperantists who wanted
to compare, rather than people interested in the language in its own
right :)


On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:13:01 -0500, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> There's a yahoogroup called "Use your Conlang" (formerly "Conlangs in Use"
> but it got spammed I think).  The idea is/was that two (or more) people
> would agree to learn each other's languages.  A few people actually did it
> (and I think went private), but the list has been quiet for some time now.
Ooh. Link, please?

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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