Re: [lojban] language codes was: So what do we say for Swedish?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 02 April 2010 14:20:28 Jorge Llambías wrote:
> According to Wikipedia, they are all in use:
>
> aaa: Ghotuo
> aab: Alumu-Tesu
> aba: Abé
> abb: Bankon
> baa: Babatana
> bab: Bainouk-Gunyuño
> bba: Baatonum
> bbb: Barai
>
> I propose those eight be used as test cases.

I've never heard of any of those languages, except Ghotuo which I found when 
looking at template aaa on Wiktionary, and I think that if you run this 
nunfu'ivlazba to completion, you're going to end up with a humongous list 
that's as desuet as a dule of doves.

The way language names are coined in natural languages is completely 
different. People who are interested in a particular language (hereinafter 
Pelonian) find out what the Pelonians call their language (which requires 
learning some Pelonian) and what their neighbors the Almonians call it. Then 
they decide what to call it in, say, English. Then they write reports about 
Pelonian and other people learn that there is such a language. They may, on 
learning more Pelonian, figure out that they used the wrong word to name the 
language ("Auca", for instance, is an exonym meaning "enemy", so they are now 
called "Waorani" or other spellings thereof).

I do not see a need for coining a type-4 or even type-3 fu'ivla for Baatonum 
or Babatana until some Lojbanist is interested in those languages. Leave them 
at type 1.

Pierre
-- 
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa

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