Re: Language in use

 Yann scriveva:
 > Do any of you know conlangs that are in
 > use by more than, say, three
 > people besides klingon and esperanto?

 In the IAL field, Interlingua, Ido, Occidental, Glosa and Volapük come
 to mind. Interlingua is probably the second largest IAL (in terms of
the
 number of people that use it) after Esperanto. There are both an
 international and national Interligua societies, a substantial body of
 translated and original literature, at least one monthly magazine
 ("Panorama"), an annual congress and several web forums.

 There's an Ido Society based in the UK which holds an annual congress,
 and also runs an Ido book service which sells mostly old leftover
copies
 of Ido books, but also more recent original works, and there are
several
 active Ido forums on the web.

 There's a Volapük society in the UK as well, and a monthly magazine
 ("Sirkülapenäd"). There are at least few dozen people who read and
write
 Vp, though I've never heard anyone speak it, and those that do use it
do
 so as a hobby interest rather than promoting it as an IAL (which would
 be, shall we say, infeasible at this point. :-)

 There was something of an Occidental revival in the 90s, mostly due to
 one man in Arizona or someplace out that direction; I'm afraid I'm
 blanking out on his name at the moment. He had collected a lot of
 Occidental publications and was actively promoting the language,
however
 he drew some flak from the general IAL community for refusing to
"share"
 Occidental with anyone who did not join his organization and actively
 promote Occidental over other IALs -- he didn’t want to deal with
 "dilettantes" (as he wrote on AUXLANG once). I believe that there is
 still a small group of Occidental enthusiasts in Europe as well
 (unaffiliated with the Arizona organization).

 At least in the 90's there was a Glosa society in the UK and a regular
 (I think monthly) magazine called "Plu Glosa Nota". The society was run
 by a husband and wife team and the husband died recently, and I don't
 know if the society or magazine are still active at this point.

 In the realm of non-IAL conlangs, one that springs immediately to mind
 is Talossan. There are at least two speakers (myself and Ben Madison,
 its creator) and half a dozen or so more people who read and write the
 language, but I don't know if they speak it as well.

I've also heard that there are groups of enthusiasts who meet to learn
and use Quenya and Sindarin, but I don't know any details.


 Philip Newton scriveva:
 > > There's a yahoogroup called "Use your Conlang"
 > > (formerly "Conlangs in Use"
 >
 > Ooh. Link, please?

 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/use_your_conlang/

 Best regards,

 Thomas
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