there is a made up language called esperanto that, while not officially accepted by any country, is spoken by an estimated 100,000-2,000,000 people around the world.
in 1887 its creator, L.L. Zamenhof, spliced the most efficient characteristics of romanic and germanic languages under the pseudonym "the hopeful doctor" ("doktoro esperanto") to produce "...an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding."
esperanto is the official language of the international academy of science in san marino and if you listen carefully to the overhead announcements in the 1997 movie gattaca, you will hear that some of them are spoken in esperanto.
[esperanto on wikipedia]
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