Re: Average life of a conlang

Quite so. That's why Omina is really an IAL skewed towards native Basque
speakers instead of IE langs. (tee hee!) :-)
Mike


Indeed.  It is thus more or less the same as with natlangs, which
people learn because they (a) intend to visit a country where the
language is spoken (b) are going to engage into business with it
(c) are interested in the language community's culture (d) any
combination of the above.  Few people learn a language because
they are curious about its grammar or anything like that.  This,
ultimately, is the reason why artificial IALs failed: they are no
country's language.