Leili wrote:
>Dear IAL members,
>
>I am a high school senior working on a research paper on the need for an
>auxiliary language.  I am looking at past attempts as well as current
>efforts.
>
>I am having a hard time finding sources.  I would like to discuss the
>current state of progress toward adoption of such a language and would
>welcome any thoughts about where I could search further.
>
>I have spent alot of time on the Web without much success. I was glad I
>found your email list.  I was hoping some of your members might have
>some suggestions they would be willing to email me.
>
>In addition to the constructed languages, it would be helpful for me if
>anyone has ideas about where to gather stats on current usage of English
>as a non formal auxiliary language. Also, I haven't gotten information
>yet on World Federalists and wondered if anyone was familiar with this
>group?  Have they included anything about auxiliary language in their
>efforts?
>
>Thank you very much,
>
>Leili
>
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I think the best starter would be: Andrew Large: The International Language
Movement. I think it was published in 1984 in the UK.

I tried without success to access
http://infoweb.magi.com/~mfettes/studies.htm
that Ken wrote about.

The number of Esperantists being members of national organizations is about
30,000. You can amuse yourself in counting how high the percentage of
organized persons is as compared to the total estimated number of Esperanto
speakers.

The other languages are so small so they don't have any numbers at all.

This is a short text in Esperanto (the h stands for a circumflex accent
that is put over letters like c, s g etc. as U.S. ASCII was not designed by
Esperantists.

La lingvo esperanto estas ghis nun la plej sukcesa internacia lingvo. Ghi
havas mundan organizon, reprezentata en preskau chiuj landoj de la mondo.
La lokaj reprezentantoj estas nomitaj _deligitoj_ kaj tiaj estas en preskau
chiuj pli grandaj urboj en - almenau la okcidenta - mondo.

Personally I prefer Interlingua, published by the International Auxiliary
Language Association. This is a little sample text in Interlingua:

Interlingua ha un concepto que se differe de illo de esperanto. Io habita
in Svedia, e io ha apprendite interlingua. Plure alumnos in le scholas
svedese se interessa in interlingua. Le causa de isto es que interlingua
usa le vocabulario international in un altere maniera que esperanto.
Personalmente io prefere interlingua, benque io etiam pote usar esperanto.






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