From phma@oltronics.net Sat Sep 08 21:06:06 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 04:06:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 16640 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2001 04:06:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 9 Sep 2001 04:06:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.233) by mta2 with SMTP; 9 Sep 2001 04:03:09 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 07DCE3C4C3; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 23:59:14 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Conlang Ethnologue entries Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 23:59:10 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0109082359102M.05217@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Saturday 08 September 2001 23:44, Craig wrote: > >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 This means the usual sentence order. Of course sentences can be rearranged - even in English which has no nominative or accusative case endings except for pronouns. And languages with cases have typical orders, even though they easily permute them. > >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? Don't know. I just made up names. phma