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Kotava
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Kotava (sometimes also spelled Kodava) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) created by Staren Fetcey in 1978 that focuses on the principle of cultural neutrality. The name means "the language of one and all", and the Kotava community has adopted the slogan "a project humanistic and universal, utopian and realistic". The language is mainly known in French-speaking countries and most learning materials for it are in French.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Kotava
- Language.nativename
- Kotava
- Language.creator
- Staren Fetcey
- Language.created
- 1978
- Language.setting
- International auxiliary language
- Language.region
- Mainly used in France, Canada, Africa, Spain, and Polynesia
- Language.fam2
- International auxiliary language
- Language.posteriori
- a priori language
- Language.iso3
- avk
- Language.linglist
- avk
- Language.image
- Flag of Kotava.svg
- Language.glotto
- kota1280
- Language.glottorefname
- Kotava
- Language.agency
- Linguistic committee (Kotava Avaneda)
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- described at URL
- cals.info/language/kotava
- Wikimedia language code
- avk
- Commons category
- Kotava
- native label
- Kotava
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 50
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- Literature
- In popular culture
- Sample texts
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Kotava (sometimes also spelled Kodava) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) created by Staren Fetcey in 1978 that focuses on the principle of cultural neutrality. The name means "the language of one and all", and the Kotava community has adopted the slogan "a project humanistic and universal, utopian and realistic". The language is mainly known in French-speaking countries and most learning materials for it are in French.
== History == Kotava was invented by Staren Fetcey, a Canadian traveler and linguist, who began the project in the summer of 1975, on the basis of her study of previous IAL projects. The language was first made available to the public in 1978, and two major revisions were made in 1988 and 1993. Since then, the language has stabilized, with a lexicon of more than 17,000 basic roots. In 2005, a committee of seven members was established with the responsibility of guiding the future evolution of the language.