[Wikipedia-l] Re: Why do we have them??
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Mon Jun 27 11:21:54 UTC 2005
Patrick Hall wrote:
>On 6/27/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Tim Starling wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I think we can put the blame on our use of language code lists which are
>>>biased towards political rather than linguistic divisions.
>>>
>>>
>>An important observation. In Wiktionary I keep having to beat back the
>>argument that a wide assortment of conlangs are acceptable because they
>>have been granted a code.
>>
>>Ec
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>
>Which are those, just out of curiosity? (I imagine the list includes
>Esperanto and Volapük?)
>
Esperanto, Interlingua and Volapük have been established for some time.
I suppose too that Ido and Lojban have some claim to legitimacy.
I just cleaned out a number of Latenkwa entries. Then there's
Romanica, Espreso, Sasxsek, Lingua Franca Nova, Klingon, Quenya, D'ni,
Glos, Bitruscan, Sindarin, Cirth, Tengwar, and probably a few others.
Ec
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