Naturalistic planned language
A naturalistic planned language is an a posteriori constructed language[1] specifically devised to reproduce the commonalities in morphology and vocabulary from a group of closely related languages, usually with the idea that such a language will be easier to use passively – in many cases, without prior study[1] – by speakers of one or more languages in the group.
The term most commonly applies to planned languages that are predominantly based on the Romance languages, best known of which are Interlingue (previously known as Occidental) and Interlingua. Both were designed to serve as international auxiliary languages.[2] However, there are also languages intended for speakers of a particular language family (zonal constructed languages), including Pan-Romance, Pan-Germanic and Pan-Slavic naturalistic planned languages.[3]
Since the creation of such a language includes shared idiosyncrasies from the source languages, active use seems to be generally more difficult to learn than for schematic planned languages, though because of grammatical simplification considerably easier than for ethnic languages of the same type. [citation needed]
According to Willem Anthony Veeloren Van Themaat, proponents of naturalistic planned languages argue that naturalistic planned languages are capable of being used as instruments of culture but schematic planned languages are not. The justification for this reasoning, he argues, is that naturalistic planned languages are able to carry the culture from their source languages while schematic planned languages are "purely rational, without cultural value, unable to express feeling" and "unsuitable for literature."[4]
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[edit]- ^ a b Haitao, Liu (2001). Schubert, Klaus (ed.). "Planned languages: From Concept to Reality" (PDF). Interface (Book, compiled from special issues (Vol. 15, Issues 1 and 2)). 15: 136.
- ^ Bernasconi, Edo (1977). Neo-Romanticism in Language Planning. La Chaux-de-Fonds: Kultura Centro Esperantista. See: section 10.5., "Linguistics and Neo-Romance Planned Linguistics".
- ^ Lu, Chhiong-Ek (2021). "The Environment of Language Creation from the Perspective of European Geopolitics: A Case Study of the Rise of Pan-nationalist Zonal Constructed Languages" (PDF). Global Academic Journal of Linguistics and Literature. 3 (6): 109.
- ^ Veeloren Van Themaat, Willem Anthony (1987-12-01). "On the Causes of the Disagreements in Interlinguistics". TUF - Language Typology and Universals. 40 (1–6): 698. doi:10.1524/stuf.1987.40.14.693. ISSN 2196-7148.
The adherents of naturalistic planned languages generally argue, that, because language is closely connected to culture, only a planned language closely similar to the natural languages can be an instrument of culture, a medium of literature. In Occidental die Weltsprache (1930), the first book in which Occidental presented itself to the World with a full apparatus of learning, Prorók argued this way in Cultural and Educative Value of Occidental and Ramstedt in Psychological and Sociological Character of the Languages, the two chapters about the cultural-philosophical basis of Occidental. But the most elaborated and well-documented defense of the thesis, that only a naturalistic planned language can be a medium of culture, is Bakonyi's book of 1978. According to him a schematic planned language is purely rational, without cultural value, unable to express feeling (Bakonyi 1978, pp. 256 and 260) and unsuitable for literature (Bakonyi 1960, p. 155). "Contrarily, the natural universal language (Interlingua) is the heir of all natural cultural values." (Bakonyi 1978, p. 260).