Is there a shared tag for people learning/speaking/enjoying auxiliary languages? I feel like a lot of people who are into esperanto would also be into interlingua/interlingue/interslavic/toki pona or even volapük, and vice versa, but the tags for most of the individual languages are just...absolutely barren. Some unity would do us good for sure
I'd suggest #auxlangblr, to go off the already established term auxlang and connect to the broader #langblr community. I'm open to any other ideas tho :)
Image IDs: the flags of Esperanto, Interlingua and Interslavic, the 3 most widespread constructed auxiliary languages today
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Making progress in a natural language entails lots of listening, studying, and generally soaking in the words and sounds of the new language until your head is buzzing with them. Over time you realise that you're building up an intuitive understanding of what sounds correct and natural, along with a growing vocabulary.
I haven't gotten deep into constructed languages like Toki Pona or Esperanto, only dabbled a little to satisfy my curiosity, but I've noticed babbling seems to play a much greater role in the learning process for these. I almost involuntarily get the urge to babble short expressions to myself using the new rules (ni li pona, ni li ike, mi wile e ni...), and the new language patterns gradually become intuitive in that way, instead of acquiring them through repeated exposure. It helps make up for the scarcity of resources in most conlangs.
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In other, less horrible news, I found a higher-quality image of the Interlingua logo.
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so I've had another look at the Vaguely European Writing System (for ambiguously European background settings in comics etc...) and..... uh.. like, the purpose was to "unify" Latin, Greek and Cyrillic in the most obvious, least ambiguous way possible. and in a way that looks good (because Greek characters tend to stand out stylistically, and Cyrillic has excess letters to accommodate Slavic languages) and.... I've basically just made Cyrillic-lite
which is anticlimactic, but anyway. it's functional. have a look
the alphabet
‹a› Aa, /b/ Бb, /d/ Dd, ‹e› Ee, /f/ Фф, /g/ Гг, /h/ Hh, ‹i› İi, /j/ Jj, /k/ Kк, /l/ Λʌ, /m/ Mm, /n/ Nɴ, ‹o› Oo, /p/ Пn, /r/ Pp, /s/ Cc, /ʃ/ Ѡѡ, /ʒ/ Ѡ̄ѡ̄, /t/ Tt, /θ/ ϴϑ, ‹u› Yy, /v/ Вв, /w/ Uuŭ, /x/ Xx, /z/ Zʒ
/ŋ/ гг/гк, /ɲ/ ɴɴ, /tʃ/ tѡ, /dʒ/ dѡ̄. and Вв should probably move up in alphabetical order now that I've thought about it
[image id: the v.e.w.s. handwritten forms]
text samples
1) Tѡiui homoj ectac deɴacкe ʌibépaj кaj éгaʌaj ʌaŭ diгɴo кaj pajtoj. İʌi nocédac patcioɴ кaj кoɴctcieɴtcoɴ, кaj deвyc кoɴdyti yɴy aʌ aʌia eɴ cnipito de фpatetco.
2) Tote ʌe eccepec hymaɴ ɴaѡe ʌibépe e éкuaʌ iɴ diɴɴitate e iɴ depeкtoc. İʌʌec ec dotate de patcjoɴ e de кoɴѡieɴtcja e debe aгep ʌe yɴec вepco ʌe aʌtepec iɴ yɴ cnipito de фpatépɴitate.
3) Ty ʌeʒ étp hyméɴ ɴéc ʌibʒ et éгou eɴ diɴɴité et eɴ dpua. İʌ coɴ dyé de péʒoɴ e de кoɴcjeɴc e duaв aѡ̄ip ʌeʒ yɴʒ eɴвep ʌeʒ outp daɴʒ yɴ ecnpi de фpatepɴité.
[image 1: handwritten cursive example of text sample 1 above (with two spelling mistakes) ; image 2: print handwriting of sample 2 above]
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Interlingua
https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingvao
Interlingua estas sintezo de la angla, franca, itala, hispana kaj portugala lingvoj.
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Early Interlingua/Early Interslavic
History loves to repeat itself
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spent the last hours making this scheme for IALs
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Ὁ βίος βραχύς,
ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή,
ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς,
ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή,
ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή.
Vīta brevis,
ars longa,
occāsiō praeceps,
experīmentum perīculōsum,
iūdicium difficile.
Le vita breve es,
le arte longe,
le occasion precipitate,
le experimento periculose,
le judicio difficile.
— Hippocrates, Aphorismi
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Inkling Linguistics
Last week I wrote about “Learning Languages,” and I promised to follow up with a related theme – the creation of new words and languages. Let’s consider the simple matter first.
Adding New Words
Anyone can make up a new word. The problem is whether we have enough influence to have it adopted and used by another human being. (I add this qualifier to eliminate those who might attempt to skirt the…
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Hey, uh. So. What do you mean, "Nameless country that predated the Republic of Texas"? How much data did humanity lose between the 21st century and Aspen's time period? Or is like, "America" just a word that means "nameless" in Interlingua? Or did "America" become a taboo word and it was lost the same way that the old word for bear was taboo? Is the Republic of Texas censoring all mention of America??
How do you lose the name of a country like that????????????
America is the name of a continent -- two continents, in fact. It's not the name of a country.
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