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Why is Romanian not a control language for Interlingua?
IALA Interlingua is a naturalistic romance-based conlang. There are six control languages (primary: English, French, Italian, and Spanish/Portuguese counted as one language "Iberian"; secondary: ...
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Language evolution in Ido
The Wikipedia article on Ido states that there have been almost no official changes to the Ido language since 1922. But Ido has a small speech community, and therefore there may be unofficial changes ...
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Free word building in Interlingua
There is even a Wikipedia article on Free word building in Interlingua stating that it is feasible to apply derivational affixes in Interlingua productively even when none of the so-called control ...
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Research into novel language features that are easy to acquire in an L2
Is there any known research on novel language features that are easy to acquire?
I'm most interested in language features that are unexpectedly easy to acquire despite not having an L1 equivalent (so ...
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Where can I find resources about lingua scinter?
The Lingua scinter is an ideolanguage created in 1931 by Gaetano Viveros. It is the abbreviation for "International scientific lingua based on Latin and Greek". www.europalingua.eu
Here is ...
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How to reanalyse collectives in High Valyrian?
Note: For the purposes of this question, please do not assume that the Tongues of Ice and Fire Wiki is correct1 unless it references somewhere else.
The High Valyrian [grammatical] number page of the ...
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How to create realistic intonation?
How would one approach creating a conlang with a system of intonation, like English? Specifically for a naturalistic a priori conlang.
Some sub-queries I have are
What resources are there, if any, on ...
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Attach noi/poi-clauses to a selbri in Lojban
In Lojban, what is the right way to attach restrictive and non-restrictive clauses to a selbri?
Consider the English example:
It is the fourth-most populous city in California, after Los Angeles, San ...
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How do you handle the distinction between "modifiers" (adjectives and adverbs) and "determiners" in a generic way?
I am working on a conlang and am trying to better handle the distinction between adverbs, adjectives, and determiners. Adverbs modify verbs (and other things), and adjectives modify nouns, but ...
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List of segment usage based on how many people use it?
The great Phoible 2.0 has exclusive list of segment usages based on "Languages", but since some languages such as Lak are only used by handful of people, it won't make any sense if I employ ...
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How many literatures?
I believe or assume that Volapük, Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, Interlingue, and Klingon each have at least a few translations of important literature such as the Bible or Hamlet. What other ...
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Naturalness and Intuitiveness of marking tense and aspect in the negative but not affirmative
I'm wondering about the naturalness and intuitiveness of marking tense in negative clauses but not affirmative ones. I'm also wondering whether a language with this hypothetical feature would be ...
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Can you use possessive indicators on pronouns that already have a possessive version of itself in Dovahzul?
In Dovahzul, you can show possession by using se, do, ro, or dro. However, the pronouns already have possessive versions of themselves (e.g. You goes to Your).
Would something like hisedok/hi do dok ...
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First-timer questions for developing language families, been trying out Vulgarlang
I'm currently working on a project of mine, an overhaul modification for the game Victoria 3 and I'm digging deeper into the phase for making unique languages to represent portions of every continent/...
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Has the Assahai'i language ever been created?
I heard that David Peterson thought about creating the Asshai'i language. Did that ever happen?
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