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Interlingua
Interlingua because is a notable constructed language in that it is one of the few international auxiliary languages (along with Esperanto and Ido) from the 'heydey' of IALs that is still alive today. It also has its Wikipedia with a bit over 1900 articles, making it the third largest Wikipedia in a conlang (behind Ido and Esperanto). (The next largest conlang Wikipedia, for Occidental/Interlingue, has just above 200 articles.)

I can't say it's a self-nomination since I've had a lot of criticism and support on the way to getting it here, but I did do a lot of research and a lot of writing to get it this far. Thus, I can't claim to be unbiased in this, so I won't be voting. Almafeta 22:19, 28 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Oppose Too many red links, no references. Denni &#9775; 23:25, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
 * I included three of my primary references, in one case moving them out of external links. I'll have to return to the library soon to get the publisher's info and ISBNs of the other two books.  As to the red links?  Well...  it seems I've got some more writing to do.  Almafeta 00:35, 29 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Object agree with Deni, there is a red link to the color argument. What is this? Also, the section "Criticisms of Interlingua" uses weasel words, a pet hate of mine. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:27, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * "Weasel words" are required to remain NPOV. Almafeta 15:10, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Refer to Peer Review. For starters: pronunciation should be 'Phonology' or 'Sounds' and should use IPA transcription instead of loose approximations. It would be nice to have phoneme inventories (vowels, consonants) instead of unhelpful clues like 'the vowels are like Spanish and the consonants are like English'. &mdash; mark &#9998; 08:20, 30 May 2005 (UTC)