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(a)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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