On one hand it's another project for a Romance-based international
auxiliary language, more in the vein of Interlingua and Interlingue than
Esperanto. It has an energetic academic as a kind of a "lead developer", it
has quite a few fans, and I even read a whole graphic novel written in it a
few years ago online (it's indeed very easy to read to somebody who learned
another Romance language). But I doubt that it is actually useful to a lot
of people or sustainable if the leader loses interest.
Because of these doubts in general I even tried to get the English
Wikipedia article about it deleted:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Lingua_Franca…
. The article was kept as "no consensus to delete", and I don't plan to try
to delete it again.
I'm not really opposed to a Wikipedia in it, but I have low expectations
and few reasons to believe that it will develop much. I'll be happy to be
proven wrong.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2017-01-31 16:20 GMT+02:00 MF-Warburg <mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com>om>:
There is a request for Wikipedia in "Lingua
Franca Nova", which is a
constructed language with an ISO 639-3 code. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Lingua_Franca_Nova_2> I'm
bringing it up because there is currently a very active contributor on
Incubator.
A previous request was rejected in 2008. Of course, the Language Proposal
Policy says:
If the proposal is for an artificial language such as Esperanto, it
must have a reasonable degree of recognition as determined by discussion
(this requirement is being discussed by the language committee).
What are your opinions about the degree of recognition? Can the language
be eligible or should it be rejected? I have never heard of this language
before, but I am of course only a linguistic layman.
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