From ragnarok@pobox.com Sat Sep 08 20:44:47 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 9 Sep 2001 03:44:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 63432 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2001 03:44:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 9 Sep 2001 03:44:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.246) by mta1 with SMTP; 9 Sep 2001 03:44:46 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.34] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id A5C32D400122; Sat, 08 Sep 2001 23:45:07 -0400 Reply-To: To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Conlang Ethnologue entries Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 23:44:34 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <0109082226542L.05217@neofelis> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" >LOJBAN (LOJBAU, JBOBAU, LOJBO) 4,500,000 in Lojbangug, 20,000 in Loglandia, >and a few elsewhere. Loglanic, Southwest. Typology: SVOOOO, isolating, Can be anything - OOSOVO is just as possible using FA >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. Which dialect name goes with which pronunciation and location? >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. Most parents, on the other hand, encourage use of the dzebau - but the lobypli youth are too busy digging themselves out of the collision wreckage. The mountains which form the border between the two nations are not well populated, for in the mountains there is no food. As a result, lojban spoken in Loglandia differs from Lojbanistani lojban dialects. --la kreig.daniyl. 'segu le bavli temci gi mi'o renvi lo purci .i ga le fonxa janbe gi du mi' -la djimis.BYFet xy.sy. gubmau ckiku nacycme: 0x5C3A1E74