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Re: Language in use

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 6:34
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, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> Watch the Reply-To!