Re: Reinventing NATLANGs

Buna saira, Mike
I'm very much into such languages. Btw. I thought Folksspraach was an
inter-Germanic auxiliary language, no?
I have been active in the Cornish revival for a couple of years now. And I'm
happy to say I met a few people I'd been in e-mail contact with when I went
to Cornwall in April. It was fun to use the language. There are about 300
fluent speakers who use the language with family and friends.
I'm also currently looking into Vegliot (again). This was the last remnant
of Dalmatian Romance and became extinct when its last speaker Tuone Udaina
died in a road accident in the 1890s.
I plan to make a systematic collection of the reliable material that has
been collected while there were still a few speakers alive and want to
re-con-lang a version filling in the gaps. I still have a lot of work ahead
of me.
Jamna maja, junda cauc!
Dan






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Examples such as Hebrew, a AuxLang, reintroduced as a NatLang via Conlang
methods.
What about languages that are less well known?
I know I am on a list for "FolkSpraach" an attempt by some to see what
English or something like, would have turned out with out all the
French/Latin words..
But what about languages that once existed but now are dead or in danger of
becomming dead.
Exampkle here in Alaska, the Eyak language, related I remember to the Aleut
and Eskimos languages (we use Eskimo here in Alaska, cause we have more than
one form of Eskimo, so please forgive if your from Canada, where the term is
potentially offensive, we  have our own offensive words for Eskimos here,
but not going into that). Does raise a question, offensive words in your
conlang, or just let them happen, people have a knack for taking simple
words for one thing and turn them into a nasty word and like.
Eyak is now dead, other than recorded and writtern examples..
How do you reintroduce a former NATLang using various means, from using
conlang techniques to bring the language up to modern needs/standards
(vocabulary), as well as teach people it and give them reasons to want to
speak the language..
Like Ebonics, why would I want to learn it? I have no benefit to learn it,
other than cause of musical interests, or people I know who are into it, or
cause I moved to a place where it is spoken?
Some forms of Inupiaq is going away, cause new generation kids see no reason
to learn it, and their parents do not push it, so the language dies..
Body of literature helps, as seen by Martin Luthers translating the Bible
into HochDeutsch, and then with Gutebburgs printers help, spread it around..
Fonts and means to do word processing, webpages and like online and off?
Modern form of what the printing press did for literature, languages and
more.
How popular is Esperanto and like, or should I just keep speaking English?
Mike

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