Never made an international auxlang, nor have I ever collaborated on a conlang project as none of my friends are into linguistics. Thought I’d kill three birds with one stone. Who’s in? I’ll probably use Google Docs, LibreOffice, or one of the many collaborative Markdown editors out there.
I wouldn’t mind, it sounds fun :D Maybe hedgedoc instead of google, though?
Never heard of it, I’ll give it a look! I just posted my first update about the project ;)
Please no Google. 🙁
But this makes me happy that there’s a conlang community in the fediverse now.
Do you have any thoughts on what your lingua franca would be like? My understanding is that so far Toki Pona, Lojban, and Esperanto are the most popular contenders. But I’ve heard people make the criticism that at least two of these are too Eurocentric.
Please no Google. 🙁
I agree, lol. I dislike it but I’m not opposed to using it if others prefer it.
And yes, I find Esperanto very Eurocentric. Also, I recently conducted a study on Toki Pona as a lingua franca and found that, due to its utter simplicity, it worked very well for multi-national friend groups and communities but was an utter failure in more formal or political areas. I’d like to make something at least somewhat inspired by Toki Pona but more suited for both of these use-cases.
I didn’t know LibreOffice is collaborative. I’d be interested in trying something like this.
A while ago i worked out what phonemes are used in the 5 or so most widely spoken languages, and came up with /n m j w t k f s p/ and /a e i u/. If i remember right all of those are in at least 3.
Interesting… I remember David J. Peterson gave a talk at Google a while back, and I believe he came to a very similar conclusion. I’ll definitely be using those!
Oh, and LibreOffice isn’t collaborative (yet); I just love the software, lol. It could be a bit of a hassle to use I suppose, but I’ve done it before for a worldbuilding project.
The best options i’ve found for collaborating on conlangs or worldbuilding are Discord/Revolt/whatever other clone, and Cryptpad or Google Office Suite (spreadsheets might be better than text documents). For presenting the information in a non-collaborative way, just making a simple website isn’t very hard. Or a Lemmy community could work, once the language is fleshed out enough for light use. I wonder if anything like PolyGlot for collaborative work exists.
Hm. Interesting Lemmy community idea. I’ve dabbled with Cryptpad before, but I’m just not as comfortable with the tool as I am with the Google Suite or LibreOffice. Though, I’d be happy to learn it if people preferred :)
I’ve never heard of PolyGlot; I’ll look into it.
