Wikijunior talk:Languages/Ido

Should St Hildegarde's Lingua Ignota be mentioned?
I've been working on this article as I'm interested in constructed languages. The people who had worked on it before me had done a good job but, i think, sometimes wrote in a way that was a bit too difficult for children to understand. I've also added to it, maybe at too great length.

What i'm trying to decide is whether to include the names of other constructed languages. (Esperanto must be mentioned, of course.) Is their inclusion making the article so detailed that it puts some children off reading it?

In particular, should the first known constructed language be mentioned? It was in the article before i started editing it. Should i take it out? I think St Hildegarde did not set about constructing a language. I think she would have seen herself as having a special language, one "unknown" ("ignota" in Latin) to humankind, revealed to her for her use in her prayers to God and the saints. She certainly would not have seen herself as having been given this language for the purpose of facilitating international communication as in Europe there was already an international language - Latin!

I think i will take it out but if future editors think i am mistaken they can find what they need to know on the Wikipedia page entitled Lingua Ignota. Judith M (discuss • contribs) 15:39, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

I decided to remove some dates as i know from my own childhood that children have difficulty with time.

I've also removed the actual names of other artificial languages as i thought children need less detail. The names can be found on Wikipedia's page entitled List of Constructed Languages. Judith M (discuss • contribs) 21:48, 21 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Sounds like you're making plausible choices. It can be hard to know what to mention in these pages.  Interest and benefit of the kids is key; one wants to be really engaging for kids.  (Related case, I've had in mind for some time now to write something for the Quenya article about how Tolkien was interested in languages as a kid and then grew up and did all this cool stuff; seems like if done well enough &mdash;aye, there's the rub&mdash; it could be great for a Wikikjunior book; but stuff like that clearly has to be considered on an article-by-article basis :-).  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 15:31, 27 August 2017 (UTC)