16 Lingua Francas. Artificial languages.

Guidelines:

Lingua Franca in history

Lingua Franca nowadays

Artificial languages: Bopal, Kosmos, Novial ...

Esperanto

Ido

Sign languages

References:

1 our lecture

2 Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman: An Introduction to Language, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., USA, chapter 7, Language in Society, see Lingua Francas

   Goerge Yule: The study of language,CUP, chapter 18 Sign Language