From phma@oltronics.net Sat Sep 08 19:30:12 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 9 Sep 2001 02:30:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 97558 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2001 02:30:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 9 Sep 2001 02:30:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.233) by mta3 with SMTP; 9 Sep 2001 02:28:40 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id DFE573C476; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 22:26:56 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Conlang Ethnologue entries Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 22:26:54 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <0109082226542L.05217@neofelis> Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat I sent the following to the Conlang Ethnologue (http://members.tripod.com/microtonal/language/conlang/ethnologue.html). If there are any errors or additions, please send them to microtonal@sericap.com. phma --- LOJBAN (LOJBAU, JBOBAU, LOJBO) 4,500,000 in Lojbangug, 20,000 in Loglandia, and a few elsewhere. Loglanic, Southwest. Typology: SVOOOO, isolating, polysynthetic, frequent use of terminators to disambiguate ambiguous constructions. 10% mutually intelligible with Loglan. National language of Lojbangug. Technologically advanced society in Bertcad and Xagvar; agricultural elsewhere. Dialects: Bertcad, Xagvar, Plisyfold, Bakcag, Cardang. Language use is vigorous. Bible portions. LOGLAN 400,000 in Loglandia, several elsewhere. Loglanic, Northeast. Typology: SVOOOO. Grammar very similar to Lojban but vocabulary quite different. National language of Loglandia. Language use is starting to decline; most children are bilingual in, and prefer, Lojban.