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There's a defunct auxlang project called Lingula that aimed to focus on comprehension between romance speakers. https://www.reddit.com/r/Lingula/ https://www.r
by hugh4life 7y ago
There's a defunct auxlang project called Lingula that aimed to focus on comprehension between romance speakers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Lingula/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lingula/
I don't think an international auxiliary language besides english would ever be able to take hold, but I think something like Interlingua that just focused on romance languages and used a simplified romance grammar rather than simplifying it further would have been very interesting.
I think esperanto would have had a better shot had it adopted Zamenhof's early reform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Esperanto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Esperanto
- ainar-g 7y agoThe best Romance IAL I've seen so far is Latino Sine Flexione[1]. As someone who knows Esperanto and some very basic French, it's really easy to understand. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino_sine_flexione https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino_sine_flexione
- aasasd 7y agoCan't speak from my experience here, but others say if you know one Romance language, you begin to easily understand words in other ones. So I guess any one of them would work as an international language, but Castellano seems to have a large headstart.
- rodgerd 7y agoI'm learning French (B1 level) and was surprised how much I could pick out of a Romanian movie (the tremendously enjoyable https://www.nziff.co.nz/2019/christchurch/the-whistlers/ https://www.nziff.co.nz/2019/christchurch/the-whistlers/).