>>And artificial languages can become surprisingly common; Tagalog is a
>>constructed language.
>
>Is it? I thought it was a creole, like Acadienne. (The difference
>being that nobody sat down one day and said, "The world doesn't have
>enough languages in it - I'll make up another one.")

Nope, Tagalog was actually constructed by, IIRC, a Portuguese missionary. And it's now got a few million native speakers.

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