From thorinn@diku.dk Sat Mar 6 22:46:37 2010 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 04:27:59 +0100 Comment: Issues related to constructed languages Originator: conlang@diku.dk Errors-To: thorinn@diku.dk Version: 5.5 -- Copyright (c) 1991/92, Anastasios Kotsikonas From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt) Subject: Re: got it right, Matthew! -Svar Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Thu Mar 23 22:28:10 1995 X-From-Space-Address: conlang@diku.dk Message-ID: In message conlang@diku.dk writes: > Could anyone post information about Eurolang? Yes. Eurolang (EL) est artifacta lang, qui me creatab est comuna 2a lang per la Europa Unized (EU). Its word-list est baseda super englanda lang, franca lang, italiana lang, espanyal lang, et Latin. Me intend, ka lernation et usation it est facila. Detail est, ka lernabera europa person, qui deja sav 1 or plus 1 di langs, probablae pos lire Eurolang (no tropa usation dictionary), si ge deja lernab it per 1 day. A loose translation: EL is an artificial language, which I created to be a common 2nd lang for the EU. Its lexicon is based on English, French, Italian, Spanish and Latin. I intend that lerning and using it should be easy. In particular, an educated European who already knows one or more of these langs should be able to read Eurolang (without too much use of a dictionary), if they've studied it for a day. > Are there still users of this constructed language? I only started constructing it this year, so perhaps a better question would be "are there *yet* users of EL?". AFAIK, I am the only person who currently uses EL. Perhaps you would like to be the 2nd? CURRENT STATE OF EUROLANG The Eurolang/English dictionary currently has about 900 entries, representing about 450 EL root words. EL also has about 30 bound morphemes, so that's a total of 480 roots. The Enlish/Eurolang dictionary is a bit bigger because some EL words do the work of several English words. It has about 1000 entries. I have also written a Eurolang grammar, and a document containing examples of texts in Eurolang and discussions about EL vocabulary. None of these documents is particularly error-free, because I have not finalised EL's grammar yet. If you want, I will email them to you. Over the next few weeks I intend to rewrite these documents, get rid of errors, perhaps format them into HTML, and make them available on a Web/FTP site. -- Phil Hunt