Europanto

[Peter Constable]

> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson


> > The Ethnologue Editor replied to my
> >inquiry indicating that he intends to remove all
> >constructed languages except in case there is
> >evidence of a significant population of people
> >using one as a first language.
>
> This seems a pity, as they are harmless.

I think it's simply a matter of scoping and division of labour between SIL and Linguist List: the two are collaborating on language cataloguing, with SIL handling modern (live on or after 1950) naturally-occurring languages and Linguist List handling other human languages.



Peter