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Ghost wrote::P

How many people have put their lang up on http://www.langmaker.com. I have, it should be on the list soon.

Please go to http://www.jaueqaomys.tk

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I put mine up in January, but my language is totally different now, so I better go change it.

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The Langmaker countdown means nothing. Esperanto is #1 on it. :mrgreen:

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Xeon wrote:The Langmaker countdown means nothing. Esperanto is #1 on it. :mrgreen:
That tells *me* that the countdown is reliable. :mrgreen:

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Shm Jay wrote:
Xeon wrote:The Langmaker countdown means nothing. Esperanto is #1 on it. :mrgreen:
That tells *me* that the countdown is reliable. :mrgreen:
I like Esperanto, but it's basically just a bunch of languages butchered and thrown into one.

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Esperato sounds too Romance to be an international language. Amusing how the only attempts at such things I've heard of are done by Europeans, and they all sound like Romance languages. Zamenhof wasn't nearly creative enough for my taste.

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valinta wrote:Esperato sounds too Romance to be an international language. Amusing how the only attempts at such things I've heard of are done by Europeans, and they all sound like Romance languages. Zamenhof wasn't nearly creative enough for my taste.
I speak a Romace language and Esperanto doesn't seems to me very 'Romance'; it reminds me of a kind of Eastern Europe/Balkan language, don't ask me why... (this is absolutely subjective, of course).

I agree with you: Zamenhof wasn't nearly creative enough.... I think one of the main problems of Esperanto is that it doesn't have a mythology... if Esperanto had a mythology (invented, of course), it would had more acceptance, maybe.... Look at Quenya and Sindarin; they are great langs and they have great mythologies behind. I prefer Quenya as an auxlang instead of Esperanto...
Well, maybe the main problem of Esperanto is that sounds ugly for a lot of people and it's too 'recognizable'... too indoeuropean.
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Izopiru wrote:I speak a Romace language and Esperanto doesn't seems to me very 'Romance'; it reminds me of a kind of Eastern Europe/Balkan language, don't ask me why...
Well, the creator was a native speaker of Polish.
Izopiru wrote:Well, maybe the main problem of Esperanto is that sounds ugly for a lot of people and it's too 'recognizable'... too indoeuropean.
That was Zamenhof's intention.

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Xeon wrote:
Izopiru wrote:Well, maybe the main problem of Esperanto is that sounds ugly for a lot of people and it's too 'recognizable'... too indoeuropean.
That was Zamenhof's intention.
Why? I think is better to base a worlwide auxlang on more than one linguistic family.
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Izopiru wrote:
Xeon wrote:
Izopiru wrote:Well, maybe the main problem of Esperanto is that sounds ugly for a lot of people and it's too 'recognizable'... too indoeuropean.
That was Zamenhof's intention.
Why? I think is better to base a worlwide auxlang on more than one linguistic family.
If he wanted it to be as Indo-European as it is, he shouldn't have tried to pass it off as an "international language." :roll:

Does anybody know of an "international" auxlang that isn't primarily IE-based? I'm curious.

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valinta wrote:Does anybody know of an "international" auxlang that isn't primarily IE-based? I'm curious.
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Xeon wrote:
valinta wrote:Does anybody know of an "international" auxlang that isn't primarily IE-based? I'm curious.
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Oh yeah. *reminds self to look at it sometime*

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Heh, I was looking through Langmaker's conlang list a couple days ago, and it seemed every other lang on the list was an auxlang based on Esperanto...
It's been done so many times. What's the fun in reinventing that particular wheel? :?
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valinta wrote:If he wanted it to be as Indo-European as it is, he shouldn't have tried to pass it off as an "international language."
He had covered most of Europe as well as most of the countries founded by people of European descent in other parts of the world- back then, in the opinion of most of the people in these countries, that was enough to qualify as "international".
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Raphael wrote:
valinta wrote:If he wanted it to be as Indo-European as it is, he shouldn't have tried to pass it off as an "international language."
He had covered most of Europe as well as most of the countries founded by people of European descent in other parts of the world- back then, in the opinion of most of the people in these countries, that was enough to qualify as "international".
True, but there's people today who still want it to be the international language. That would be kind of like giving European imperialists the last laugh (if they haven't already had it with English), eh? :P

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valinta wrote:
Izopiru wrote:
Xeon wrote:
Izopiru wrote:Well, maybe the main problem of Esperanto is that sounds ugly for a lot of people and it's too 'recognizable'... too indoeuropean.
That was Zamenhof's intention.
Why? I think is better to base a worlwide auxlang on more than one linguistic family.
If he wanted it to be as Indo-European as it is, he shouldn't have tried to pass it off as an "international language." :roll:

Does anybody know of an "international" auxlang that isn't primarily IE-based? I'm curious.
Well, it's following is probably somewhere <2, but there was this guy on the conlang list (which stopped being an auxlang list when the auxlang list was created so the non-auxlanger conlangers could be left in peace, tho' I guess for questions on grammar etc. the conlang list is a resource for the more intellectual amateur auxlangers) who made a fennougric (as far as grammar) auxlang with, iirc, the vocabulary not derived from any language at all, but rather generated from scratch. It was called Uusisuom.

Of course, FU is as close you can come to IE without being IE, or perhaps not.

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Miekko wrote:It was called Uusisuom.

Of course, FU is as close you can come to IE without being IE, or perhaps not.
New Finnish?

If Finno-Ugric isn't the closest to IE, what is? (I'm not making any assertions or asking anyone in particular)

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valinta wrote:
Miekko wrote:It was called Uusisuom.

Of course, FU is as close you can come to IE without being IE, or perhaps not.
New Finnish?

If Finno-Ugric isn't the closest to IE, what is? (I'm not making any assertions or asking anyone in particular)
Depends on your definition of Indo-European. If you include Anatolian in IE, then it's probably FU/Uralic (I once read where it was South Caucasian, but I've never seen any evidence for or against that). If you separate Anatolian out, then it's obviously Anatolian.

Of course these are just of the families that are represented today. There were likely many closer to IE, but they got swallowed up by the Indo-Iranian hordes.
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Kind of offtopic now, but it seems like the actual number of the beast is 616... :? No topic for ID 616 though.

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Xeon wrote:
valinta wrote:Does anybody know of an "international" auxlang that isn't primarily IE-based? I'm curious.
Lojban
Or Klingon. It's not just international, it's interplanetary! And it probably looks less alien than Lojban.

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My guess would be that Zamenhof made Esperanto IE because when he lived, the Europeans ruled the world and almost noone at thet time wound ever dream of that the colonial rule would fall...
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skrivihop wrote:My guess would be that Zamenhof made Esperanto IE because when he lived, the Europeans ruled the world and almost noone at thet time wound ever dream of that the colonial rule would fall...
Those were the good old days :|
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WHAT ABOUT INTERLINGUA? THAT LANGUAGE WOULD WORK
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Raphael wrote:
valinta wrote:If he wanted it to be as Indo-European as it is, he shouldn't have tried to pass it off as an "international language."
He had covered most of Europe as well as most of the countries founded by people of European descent in other parts of the world- back then, in the opinion of most of the people in these countries, that was enough to qualify as "international".
Indeed, if 'international' is taken to mean 'between nations' then something only needs to be spoken in two different countries to qualify as such.

I have a theory about auxlangs. One day, everyone will speak one. However, nobody will speak the same one.
Skrivihop wrote:My guess would be that Zamenhof made Esperanto IE because when he lived, the Europeans ruled the world and almost no one at thet time wound ever dream of that the colonial rule would fall...
Also, if Wikipedia is to be believed, although he spoke several languages, only one of them (Hebrew) was non-Indo-European. Could have had quite a bearing on how Esperanto turned out.

I find it interesting that although this thread is in the 'Almea' forum, none of the posts appearing in the 'Topic Review' actually have anything to do with Mark's conworld ...

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Turtlehead wrote:WHAT ABOUT INTERLINGUA? THAT LANGUAGE WOULD WORK
Lol. It's me back in the day.

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Its the 666 thread. Maybe the top 100 Langmakers are the sign of the beast.
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Does anyone know if this list is still updated? Thank you.

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