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Re: Teaching children conlangs

From:Mark P. Line <mark@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 28, 2004, 20:58
Gary Shannon said:
> > 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.
Classical Yiklamu is certainly complete enough to be of practical use, but phylogenetically later varieties will be much more practical after some high-frequency open-class forms have been worn down to closed-class derivational (and other) processes. (CY doesn't have any derivational morphology, but it does have a very large lexicon.) -- Mark