Re: Gothic language

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> > I guess it is just another state-sanctioned prestige dialect,
> It is not. Bahasa Indonesia is really a conlang, created by only one
> person (a Dutch linguist whose name escapes me) based upon all the
> dialects that were spoken in the different Indonesian Islands at that
> time (end of the XIXth century I think). He also much simplified the
> grammar of those dialects which were much less regular than the result.
> But all this story is enough for me to consider this language as a
> conlang (or an offspring of a conlang, I don't know if it has evolved
> from now). At least, the idea of a state-sanctionned dialect is false
> this time. If you don't believe me, ask Mathias.
Even without any evidence it's a much better story, and I believe you.
But all I could find on the web is stuff like this:

: Although Indonesians today either speak Javanese or one of more
: than 250 distinct languages at home, the nation's schools instruct
: them in bahasa Indonesia, a national language consciously
: adopted from the Malay trading dialect of a lesser ethnic group in
: Sumatra. Made back in the 1920s, this decision meant that the
: numerically preponderant Javanese would not come to
: dominate the archipelago with their language

Probably the more-useful information is available in Dutch ...