David H wrote:
> Has / Does anyone know if a child has been brought up speaking a
conlang
> (created by the parents) as a native language? Would it be ethically /
> legally right to do this?
Ghu forbid! Not a monolingual one!
Anyway, my 5-y.o. boy is loaded well enough with Ukrainian as L1,
Russian he hears everyday from TV and one of his babushkas, English we
often use for private talks and Hebrew we pray... Which does not prevent
him from trying to pick up some Kuman words I'm constructing now - is it
due to his playing with that Azeri girl from the 8th floor?
> Also, I was wondering if a child was raised with
> a phonetically (and grammatically) complex conlang, would they be able
to
> pronounce and learn other (natural)languages easier?
I don't think so. Any language has is own _timbre_.
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Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> It certainly would be fascinating to see a
> child turn your conlang into an actual has-native-speakers language.
Yea, but is such plan realistic enough to be fulfilled?
> As for ethics, I don't see a
> problem so long as you're not trying to raise the child as a
> *monolingual* speaker of your conlang.
That's what I also said above.
> ...And even if you tried to do
> that, you wouldn't be able to keep the child from picking up the
> majority language in the environment without locking them away in a
> closet -- which is obviously both unethical and illegal. :)
Hehe. Even Ukraine is becoming a Babel as concerns languages...
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Gary Shannon wrote:
> Aside from a few wide-spread auxlangs, are there any
> conlangs that are ready for prime time with enough
> vocabulary to handle day-to-day conversations? I sort
> of doubt it. It seems like virtually every conlang
> I've ever encountered has been too incomplete to be of
> any practical use.
And this is the most striking truth about conlangning I ever heard. That
is why I'm trying to make at least one of my projects (for now it's
Kuman-Tyjli) to grow into something really usable. BTW, why
use_your_conlang workshop is so silent?
-- Yitzik