Re: Machine translation interlinguae (was Re: Linguistic knowledge and conlanging (...))

Jörg Rhiemeier said:
>
> There is some kind of mythology surrounding Aymara:
> it being the most logical of all natlangs, and all that.
> What is really so special about Aymara that people tell such tales
> about it?
I think most linguists that looked at the language would agree that
there's nothing particularly special about Aymara (noting that *every*
language has its strong suits, so to speak).

But a Bolivian (IIRC) fellow did decide to try to build an MT system based
on Aymara as an interlanguage, and that system is apparently still around:

      http://www.atamiri.cc/

It got quite a bit of press coverage at the time, due to the human
interest in having an ancient [sic] Andean language play a large role in
modern technology.

Microsoft has not yet decided to ship the system with every installation
of Windoze.


-- Mark