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- Linguistics 490
- January 22, 2002
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- IALs
- A Posteriori (based on existing languages)
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- first important one: Volapuk (with umlaut over the u)
- most long-lasting: Esperanto
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- main advantage of Esperanto: regularity
- main disadvantage of Esperanto: European orientation
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- What does "incommensurable" mean? (Eco, p. 330)
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- Is English going to be the IAL?
- Why?
- Why not?
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- A Posteriori Properties
- Based on Germanic Roots
- Easy for Indo-European Speakers
- Result: it worked well for a while, but then split into natural and
various dialects
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- “The Hopeful One”
- Created by Ludwig Zammenhof in 1887
- Goal: promote universal peace
- Avoided many of the mistakes of previous theoretical languages – didn’t
impose a priori qualities.
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- Romance + Germanic + Slavic
- writing table ŕ scribotablo
- Simplified Grammar, but kept accusative case
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- People caught hold of the language
- Nazis tried to oppress it because of its Jewish forefather
- Most successful created language in history
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- Used Primarily Internationally in Business
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Notes