--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
scrievit:
> >But there is a handful of artlangs which have
> >reached a rather stable
> >mode of existence. Andrew Smith's Brithenig
> >is pretty stable;
>
> Yes, but isn't this stability mainly caused by
> the fact that Andrew abandoned it?
Abandonned is not exactly the right word. It is
apparent that he still adds words to the lexicon;
there are people making translations into B (and
Andrew may well be one of them). On the other
hand, it is apparent that B's period of rapid
development is past).
> Besides, I don't know the size of
> its lexicon.
What is on the webpage is not everything, I'm
sure.
> Has it reached "full usability"?
I'm not sure what I'd say. I always found the
vocabulary to be vèry limiting (one of the
pitfalls of working with someone else's
language!); though the grammar was pretty well
fixed by the time I came across iy years ago.
> >Klingon has an official dictionary and
> >grammar; in the case of Quenya
> >and Sindarin, we have at least a published
> >corpus available to
> >linguistic analysis; there are certainly
> >others.
>
> Yes, don't forget Verdurian, Teonaht, and some
> of the other languages around here.
T! Yes - forget not Teonaht!
Padraic.
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