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There is also Folkspraak which does the same thing but with Germanic languages instead of Latin languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkspraak https://en.w
by geowwy 10y ago
There is also Folkspraak which does the same thing but with Germanic languages instead of Latin languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkspraak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkspraak
If you speak English it's pretty easy to get the gist of both.
Interlingua
Patre nostre, qui es in le celos,
que tu nomine sia sanctificate;
que tu regno veni;
que tu voluntate sia facite
como in le celo, etiam super le terra.
Folkspraak
Ons Fater, whem leven in der Himmel,
Mai din Name werden helig,
Mai din Konigdom kommen,
Mai din will werden,
in der Erd und in der Himmel.
- vintermann 10y agoI recommend Arika Orkent's "In the land of invented languages" for people who are interested in the history of invented languages. Esperanto is still the only which is in any sort of regular use, though.
- lmm 10y agoKlingon now has more speakers than Esperanto, no?
- memsom 10y agoGood question. I'd hope "no", but the best I have is "possibly".
- arundelo 10y agoEsperanto has way way more speakers than Klingon. "Arika Okrent guessed in her book In the Land of Invented Languages that there might be 20–30 fluent [Klingon] speakers."[1] "In 2009 Lu Wunsch-Rolshoven used 2001 year census data from Hungary and Lithuania as a base for an estimate, resulting in approximately 160,000 to 300,000 to speak [Esperanto] actively or fluently throughout the world, with about 80,000 to 150,000 of these being in the European Union."[2] "As of 1996, there were 350 or so attested cases of families with native Esperanto speakers. Estimates from associations indicate that there are currently around 1,000 Esperanto-speaking families, involving perhaps 2,000 children. In all known cases, speakers are natively bilingual, or multilingual, raised in both Esperanto and either the local national language or the native language of their parents."[3] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language#Speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language#Speakers [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto#Number_of_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto#Number_of_speakers [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers
- JoeDaDude 10y agoI second the recommendation for the book. She describes a meeting of Esperanto enthusiasts much like the Prospect article, a gathering of welcoming, like minded enthusiasts. See info and excerpts from Ms. Orkent's book here: http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/index.php http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/index.php
- cmrdporcupine 10y agoSo the one is basically an updated vulgar latin and the other is basically an updated low Franconian?
- memsom 10y agoUnfortunately Folksprak is not a good example. I was active in the group for many years and it was pretty much a bunch of little fiefdoms with no coherent development strategy. Over 10 years later, they still don't have a single language, just a mish-mash of little dialects. If I wanted to learn "Folksprak", I'm then in a worse position than I'd have been learning a specific Germanic dialect. Might as well learn Dutch or a Scandinavian language. At least then there would be some body of actual speakers.
- guard-of-terra 10y agoAlso there's a large array of constructed Slavic languages, like Slovio[1], and one can read them immediately without much learning. I was impressed by sheer length of the list [2]. 1 - http://www.slovio.com/ http://www.slovio.com/ 2 - http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/constructed_slavic_languages.html http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/constructed_slavic_language...