Re: conlang no longer?

En réponse à Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...>:

>
> I'd say that it will always be a constructed language. However, once
> it
> has changed enough, I would no longer call it the original language
> (and
> would start with old whatever, modern whatever), and eventually it
> would
> become commonplace enough that people would no longer think of its
> construction.
>
> That would probably take a couple of generations from the time of its
> widespread use. It would have to be used in one area and probably no
> other (except in limited amounts, like a foreign language).
>
> Anyway, to answer your question, the original will always be a
> conlang,
> but the modern version can be a [pseudo]natlang.
>
What do you make of Bahasa Indonesia then? It's as much a conlang as Esperanto
is, and yet it's become a native language after only one generation. Isn't it
become a natural language as soon as it's acquired natively?

Christophe.

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