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.
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.
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.