Re: Gothic language

Charles wrote:
>
> FFlores wrote:
>
> > What *is* Bahasa Indonesia? I was under the impression that
> > it really *was* an conlang/auxlang. Or is it just a formalized
> > and simplified unification of several dialects? Or another
> > thing?
>
> I guess it is just another state-sanctioned prestige dialect,
> like Parisian or ceceo Thpanish. Normally, languages tend to
> dialect-mosaic across countries and blend at all the borders.
>
        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.

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