Re: Rant: Defending Indonesian (was: Re: Newbie says hi)

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>
>Survival of Çrivijaya or one of the later Javanese empires? (I'd go with
>the
>former; otherwise we'd just get a Javanese colonial era-- which is what a
>lot of Indonesians think they have now anyway.....)

I'd like the former. It would also unify the Philippines as well (since
there is evidence that the Philippines probably were a part or at least
heavily connected to the Srivijaya empire). In fact, the Laguna
copperplate found near Laguna was written in Kawi, and suggests a heavy
link to Srivijaya (Antoon Postma i hear has verified that it isn't a
forgery, at least according to bibingka.com).

Hmm, it would be neat to do a pan-philippine lingua Franca. Like an actual
planned out language. Of course i hardly work on my own languages, so i
had better not jump into that :)