@akjcv typically colonized peoples are trying to preserve or promote their national languages and character, not efface them in favour of international community, so an IAL is not a high priority
unless you scope “international” smaller; there are pan-African languages, e·g Afrihili, for example, but they are only targeting pan-African community, not international community
an exception is the Baháʼí people, who want an internationally spoken language for religious reasons. but i think they might just advocate English
@akjcv you could possibly make an argument that Modern Standard Arabic is an IAL if you want; i don’t know why you would want an IAL if you know MSA
@Lady ooh that's a really interesting point!
@Lady As a current student of Yiddish and Lakota I am familiar with the general principle, yeah. Afrihili is a good example of the kind of thing I am looking for, but I'm curious if there are interesting languages that aren't widely discussed online that folks here might know about.