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There are nowadays maybe six or seven “living
artificial languages” — from a total of several
hundered “dead” ones, with new ones popping every
year. The other “living” ones (meaning that a
speaker community, however small, do exists), as
far as I know, are
Interlingua (IALA),
Klingon,
Loglan,
Lojban,
Ido,
Volapük (sort of),
and, of course, Esperanto.
António Martins, 04 June 1999
Leon Bollack published his language project in 1899,
and insisted with some more learning and reading material
for some two years, with limited success. The name
"Bolak" meant "blue [language]", and it used this
color as symbol, standing for the sky surrounding the earth.
I don’t know of any specific logo.
António Martins, 04 June, 1999
Interlingua / Latino sine flaxione
Originally called Interlingua, this 1903 project by
G. Peano is currently known by it’s alternate name,
latino sine flaxione, due to another, later and
more successful language of the
same name. According to
Rodríguez, it had a very
classical symbol (in tune with the classical, as in
latin, origin of the language project): an eagle (roman?)
over the Earth globe, here in a conjectural black on
white 2:3 logo flag.
António Martins, 05 Jun 1999
Novial, an acronym of Nova International Auxiliari
Lingue was created in 1928 by Otto Jespersen, formerly
esperantist and
idist. Maybe that’s why it’s
symbol was a seven pointed star (after Esperanto’s 5 and
Ido’s 6...). Rodríguez
reports that it was used on a «dark» background. I used
dark greenish blue — as good as any other dark.
António Martins, 04 Jun 1999
Occidental was proposed by De Whal in 1922, renamed
to Interlingue in 1945 for political correctness, in
the early 80’ies all adepts had "upgraded" themselves
to the very similar Interlingua.
According to Rodríguez,
they used as a symbol a “ying-yang”
like device, standing for a world inter-relating and
united. I’m sending it using conjectural colors and
arrangement the design of the European flag, whose
philosophy is kin to the “cosmopolitan” ideas of the
followers of this project.
António Martins, 05 Jun 1999
Rodríguez refers that
this language was created by Bosz Vilmos, a Hungarian, but
doesn’t give the date. It’s logo is an orange five petal
flower contour with a large white V on it; under it the
motto «Vivat vikto!» (meaning more or less «Long
live vikto!»), composed with an ornamental face.
António Martins, 04 Jun 1999
I dont really know if it is still
active — it is just the most recent of a series of
one-man-projects that rise and fall on fame and dont
get to have even one real speaker. (If I recall correctly,
before Glosa was Unitario, and before it, still
in the 80’ies, Uropi.)
António Martins, 04 Jun 1999
Glosa is still in active use. And in fact, was not a «one-man-project»,
its authors being Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby.
See http://www.glosa.org/ and symbol at
http://www.glosa.org/pic/glosa1.gif.
Nick Hempshall, 25 Mar 2001
Other currently active artificial language movements are not many, none of them with symbols (let alone flags) known to me:
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