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Re: conlang no longer?

From:Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...>
Date:Monday, March 11, 2002, 1:55
Christophe Grandsire sekalge:
> 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?
It's a conlang with native speakers. Klingon has (had) at least one native speaker, but it's still a conlang. The term "conlang" refers only to the language's origins. Since "natlang" is a complement to "conlang", it also refers only to the origins of [the current version of] the language. The stubborn and thick-headed Christopher Wright