ASL and Babel

If you have a user page, you can add yourself as a user of American Sign Language like me. I had to add some things as the ASL page was sorely in need of changing.

You can designate level of proficiency in a language. I've designated myself as advanced user of ASL because I'm not a native signer, and I don't believe my fluency is near-native.

They do have designators for the "dead languages." There are also theoretical language like Lojban, and quasi-language like Pig Latin.

If you haven't heard of Lojban, think of it as a uber-Vulcan/Linguistic language of logic, where each word expresses only one meaning (not good for poets or people who love wordplay), always has five letters (except in special cases for pronouns, syntax, articles, and some other things), and is modeled logically compared to Esperanto.

It's only a theoretical language because nobody on Earth think logically. Moreover, it is a very ugly language (in my opinion!). It's supposed to be a language you can use to speak with a computer because of its rigid logic. Some of the words are based on English. Nose in Lojban, for example, is "nazbi"; American is "merko"; middle is "midju." The hope was that everyone in the world can learn this language more easily than having to learn "imperial" languages like English, or "Eurocentric" language like Esperanto.

But the speakers of that language number in the tens and hundreds, like Klingon.