Re: Diglossia (was Re: New to the List, too)

>From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>Vima Kadphises wrote:
> >     As far as IALs go, some friends of mine and I have
> > been discussing a tentative Arabic "interlingua,"
> > (something much more comprehensible and easy to use
> > than fusHa, based on modern colloquial dialects) but
> > that project hasn't even entered a planning stage.
>
>Speaking of which, has anyone created a conlang with diglossia?
Not exactly on topic -- but the European Union in the early-to-mid 21st
century (before the beginning of the Second Dark Age) has two official
languages: Latin and Esperanto.  The former for formal, official documents;
the latter for international communications, commerce and even Papal
addresses.  (That last tradition is said to have been started by our current
Pope, John Paul II.)

This European Union by the way includes Russia-Ukraine-Belarus (here a
confederacy of three sovereign Republics), the Baltic States, Turkey, and a
dispersed ethnic group not defined by geography but purely by bloodlines --
the Roma or 'Gypsies'.

Danny Wier  ¶¦¬þ
Lufkin, Texas USA
http://communities.msn.com/DaWier
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