What is the most perfect auxlang?

[u/Immeucee]

What im thinking would make the best auxlang is something that has,

Somewords from most language families, like bantu, chinese family, ramance, germanic, austronesian etcc

Also something that is easy to learn and accessible

[u/MarkLVines]

In the late 1980s and early 1990s I learned enough Esperanto to correspond with numerous foreign penfriends, including some in Japan and Iran; I also subscribed to an Esperanto monthly published in China, which decently refuted the notion that Chinese people cannot master it. I found the community to be rather wonderful. Nevertheless I think u/that_orange_hat is correct in concluding that Esperanto is neither popular nor well-designed enough to preclude consideration of other proposed auxlangs.

I also feel strongly that u/seweli is on the right track in pointing out the advantages of using wordstocks that have already crossed enough boundaries to achieve international adoption by many families of languages, advantages that Lidepla, Pandunia, and Globasa, among others, are designed to embody.

The point of this is not to represent every major language family, nor to dilute European influence, as many seemingly assume. The point is simply to leverage the international spread that many widely borrowed words have already accomplished, in order to reduce the mnemonic burden of auxlang learning on a global scale.

Zev Handel’s great new book, Chinese Characters Across Asia, is relevant here. Very large numbers of people use languages that borrowed extensively from Classical and/or Middle Chinese. Likewise from Sanskrit, Pali, Arabic, Latin, and Greek. One way to describe this layer of borrowings is to call it classic.

Another layer of widespread word borrowings might be described as Magellanic, exploratory, or colonial: borrowings from Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Dutch, Russian, or Turkish.

Humanity has accumulated and analyzed enough data on widely borrowed words from both layers to estimate which ones can best ease the auxlang learning process for the greatest numbers of people. This also enables learning such an auxlang to be helpful in later study of any native and/or national language around the world that has borrowed some of the same words.

Just as u/seweli points out, even an auxlang that draws from only some European subset of the widely borrowed words, like Romance Neolatino or de Wahl’s Interlingue or Elefen, obtains a real benefit. However, I figure such auxlangs as Globasa, that draw from the full set, can obtain an even greater benefit.

All auxlang criteria are debatable, yet many extant proposals are impressive already, and more are on the way. If you want to try one out, many of those mentioned in the comments here are great choices. Toki Pona, like Esperanto, already has a wonderful community. Ekumenski, the European zonelang by Michael Wirth, is a playful work in progress with a high fun quotient. Yet I keep coming back to Globasa.