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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:45 PM, rw123472 <rw123472@...> 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@...> > Thanks for clarifying the difference between auxlang and artlang