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On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:45 PM, rw123472 <rw123472@hidden.email> wrote: > Thanks Henrik, I think your auxlangs look great. What languages did > you use to develop these auxlangs? Sorry, but it seems you're not paying attention. The languages Henrik listed are not auxlangs. This mailing list is explicitly not about auxlangs. An "auxlang" is a language intended for use as an International (Aux)iliary (Lang)uage, or IAL, hence the name. Examples of auxlangs include Volapük, Esperanto, Ido, Latine Sine Flexione, etc ad nauseum. The languages Henrik gave examples of are what we call "artlangs" - constructed languages with no political agenda. Famous exemplars tend to come from fiction - Barsoomian, Tolkien's Elvish languages, Klingon - but there need not be any such associated work. Some artlangs stand alone, some are part of an entire conworld of some level of development, perhaps collaborative... A third category is "engelang", a language built to adhere rigidly to some criteria that don't necessarily have anything to do with verisimilitude or political adoption; such languages are rarely Romance-based, however, and so unlikely to crop up on this mailing list. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@hidden.email>