Re: Futurese

>I think the point is that you are constraining your IAL based on
>the majority of (described) languages rather than the majority of
>speakers.
>
>> Why do you call them "classical"? Because they're the
>> vowels of the "classical" language Latin?
>
>No, because they are the five vowels representing the most common
>pattern cross-linguistically, and are "classically" found in IALs.
If those five vowels are "classically" found in IALS
is 1) because most IALs are Latin-based, and 2) because
those are the five "classic" vowels of the Roman alphabet
('y' is not considered a classic vowel since it was
used only for Greek borrowings).

Above you're asking for languages to be weighed according
to their number of speakers, but then you ask the
pentavocalic system to be adopted by the IAL, apparently
ignoring that it is not used by most of those languages
with most speakers: Chinese doesn't use it, nor English,
nor Arabic, nor Hindi, nor French, nor Portuguese, nor
Indonesian, nor Turkish... only Spanish and Russian among
the most spoken and widespread languages use it. Aren't you
contradicting yourself a bit here?

Cheers,
Javier