Re: Average life of a conlang

Jim Henry wrote:

> Recently there's been a thread on the ZBB about the average life of a
> conlang; that is, the average amount of time a conlang is under
> continuing development by its creator, from initial creation to
> abandonment of the conlang or death of the conlanger, not counting
> auxlangs that continue to be developed by a speaker community after
> the death or loss of interest of the creator.
I guess I would skew these statistics woefully, as I haven't really
abandoned any of my conlangs. I have been working on Urianian off and
on since around 1970, and on Ul-Munan, later known as Gaajan, later
known as Suraetua since the early 1970s. Mind you, in the early
decades I had several instances of throwing everything away and
starting from scratch. But the identities of the languages and their
uses have been the same.

In Sureatua I do have a handful of words left from that early phase,
but these will probably disappear if I find proper replacements for
them during my further research into NE Caucasian. In Urianian I have
of course all the names I invented, and the semantical and
morphological structures they impose upon the language.

LEF