Re: Yaguello

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>
> But there's not much literature on invented languages, and in the land
> of the beheaded she was the blind king, when she wrote the book in
> 1984. I'd really like a good book on artificial languages that
> concentrates on languages made for art, with a foreword by some
> recognized conlanger (is professor Barker still alive?), a chapter
> on various kinds of invented languages (auxlang, artlang, personal
> languages, languages in fiction, ritual languages), a couple of case
> studies, discussion of the status of languages as art form, development
> of conlanging and its artistic direction, survey of resources. Or a
> book on the process of designing languages, what gets designed first,
> why and how - comparison between artlang development and pidgin
> development, of course complete with case studies and survey of
> existing artlangs. Enough material for a whole scholarly discipline!
>
        Isn't there a discipline called "interlinguistics"? Or is it focussed
on IALs?

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