Hi,

About how many people around the world are fluent in Novial?

I think that the primary concern here would be number of speakers, rather than the actual quality of the language itself.

If it's widely spoken (on the order of, say, Interlingue-ex-Occidental or Volapük), I suggest you start a Test-Wiki at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/test-wp/nov/

Otherwise, it may warrant some extra discussion before anybody moves forward so you don't waste effort.

Mark

On 12/01/06, novial novial@tiscali.fi wrote:

At least four poeple have committed to contribute to a Wikipedia in the constructed language Novial. This language was published in 1928 by Professor Otto Jespersen followed by a multilingual dictionary in 1930.

In ISO 639-3 Novial has the 3-letter code nov. The documentation is here: http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=nov

On the basis of internet information the number of people who write this language on the internet is in the order of one dozen to twenty. The language is well known among enthusiasts of international auxiliary languages and is often said to be one of the best.

You can read our conversation which yesterday confirmed at least four enthusiastic contributors at the novial-discussion group at Yahoo! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/novial-discussion/

If you wish to learn more about Novial see the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novial_language

or the Novial Wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Novial

The voting is on this page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Non-natural

Thanks,

nov_ialiste

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