[Foundation-l] A proposal for new language creation

Tue Nov 29 09:20:22 UTC 2005

valdelli at bluemail.ch wrote:

>>IIRC the Ethnologue criterion for including a constructed language is 
>>the the existence of literary works in that language.  
>>    
>>
>I don't think so.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnologue
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_International
>
Sorry, I should have been more clear in making the distinction between 
Ethnologue/SIL and ISO 639-3 for which Wthnologue is the "Registration 
Authority".  Ethnolgue essentially does not concern itself with 
constructed languages.

The following is from http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/types.asp

>
>     Constructed languages
>
> This part of ISO 639 also includes identifiers that denote constructed 
> (or artificial) languages. In order to qualify for inclusion the 
> language must have a literature and it must be designed for the 
> purpose of human communication. Specifically excluded are 
> reconstructed languages and computer programming languages.
>
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