It is often repeated on the internet that studying one year of Esperanto followed by three years of German will get you more proficient in German than if you had studied it all four years. The sources to support this claim are sparse, though, and many of the studies that have been done had small … Continue reading On the propedeutic value of Esperanto
Category: Conlangery
Pandunia: a real-world Common
In recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that our world is more connected than ever. Yet we also remain divided in many ways – politically, ideologically, culturally, and most of all, linguistically. Politicians and scientists, when they need to communicate with their counterparts in other countries, must rely on translators unless they … Continue reading Pandunia: a real-world Common
A survey of international auxiliary languages
I've compiled this table of extant auxlangs. If you like the idea of learning an auxlang but don't know which one to learn, I encourage you to use this list to make an informed decision. For each language, I note several key features that can be used to characterize …
Oltilip: an international auxiliary language
Oltilip is the international auxiliary language that I constructed. I designed it to facilitate international communication across all humankind, and as such, aimed to make it as neutral, elegant, and easy-to-learn as possible. Based on those principles, I created a language with …
On the frequencies of individual phonemes in the phonetic inventories of costructed languages
This essay is based on a survey I conducted on Reddit last week in which I asked conlangers for their phonetic inventories. I got 117, which I supplemented with 24 famous conlangs (mostly auxlangs, which were woefully absent from my crowdsourced data) …
Wuslopebology 