353

353 is a graphic and numeric language based on the idea that the numbers as much as the drawings are universal. Is it possible to speak with numbers or drawings? It is possible to communicate with colors, expressions, sounds? Could we talk enumerating in our maternal languages? And code everything of agreement that men and children can learn easily? [Marcelo Martinelli]

Achaean

[Edward Hatfield]

Advanced English

Advanced English is an English spelling reform which makes English completely phonetic. Current spelling often is a nightmare for native and non-native speakers alike. In the UK, there are about 7 million people with poor spellings skills with at best first grader niveau. In the US, the estimated amount is even about 44 million which have poor spelling skills! With a completely phonetic spelling, not only these numbers would be greatly reduced, but also it would be a great deal easier to learn English! Unlike many other reform attempts, Advanced English doesn't make up some awkward far-fetched spellings, but rather stays close to the actual, official IPA pronunciations. [Pascal A. Kramm]

Aercant

A model Romance language. Inspired by Spanish, Italian and also Romanian, has a very strong Eastern Romance bent. In my opinion, a number of trends not seen in other "real" Romance languages. Retains cases, for instance. [Michael Bush]

Afrihili

Attobrah designed Afrihili to be an auxiliary language for the continent of Africa, with a phonology, vocabulary and grammar all derived from African languages. The grammar will be especially unusual to speakers of European languages. Unfortunately, little information is available about Afrihili. [K. A. Kumi Attobrah]

Amelic

Amelic was inspired by a Slayers anime character named Amelia: a beautiful sorcerer teenage that fights against the Injustice. [Almirus]

Americai Speak

This is a simplification of American English, with phonetic spelling and simplified grammar. Plurals of nouns and pronouns are regular (e.g., man, mans), comparison of adjectives and adverbs is regular (e.g., good, gooder, goodest), adjectives are formed from nouns by adding -i (e.g., sun, suni; America, Americai) and verbs are regular. [Ruby Olive Foulk]

Amerysk

Amerysk was designed for members of the Asatru (Norse Pagan) religion in North America. [Paal Filssunu]

Antido

An artificial language related to Ido. [de Saussure]

Arionak

It uses PIE as a base; it has aspects of many IE languages. [Eric Anger]

Arlipo

Grammar without any exceptions, based on Esperanto principles, but simpler and more logical. Mostly international vocabulary. Latin alphabet without any diacritics. [Lubor Vitek]

Arulo

The only information on the Web about Arulo is a brief citation in Bibliography of Planned Languages, which mentions the 1925 publication of Arulo, text book of the universal language, with exercises. [Max Talmey]

Arvan

The language is inspired by the dialect of Savoie (France). [Nicola Curat]

Atlango

Atlango is a highly euphonic and easy to learn language, without special letters and without phonetic clusters like in Esperanto. It is spoken on The Eighth Island. (More details about its history will be revealed in a book written by Richard A. Antonius.) His "lango lnternasya" turns to be the real candidate to become a neutral language for The European Union and even an international auxiliary language for worldwide use. [Richard A. Antonius]

Atlo-Greek

[Edward Field]

Auxilingua

The aim of Auxilingua is to compare the commonalities of other auxiliary languages and highlight the overall similarities which make most modern Euroclone IALs understandable one to another. [Jay Bowks]

Babm

[Fuishiki Okamoto]

Bahasa Tumilenia

I designed Bahasa (Tumilenia Prodyeta SashimiPica! The Sashimi Pizza Project) to destroy monolinguality, which I believe may be a cause of cultural ignorance. Aimed for use in Australia (my country), Italia, Nippon, and anywhere else people could bother. Bahasa Tumilenia will also form a part of a future animation series of my creation. [Tha Original Penrithian Bandanna Kid]

Balbylon

Basic English

Basic English (Basic is an acronym for "British American Scientific International Commercial") was designed as a subset of English. Any Basic English text is also a valid English text, but Basic English has just 850 core words (not counting inflectional forms); extensions to the lexicon are permitted for specific subject domains. The Bible and other texts have been translated into Basic English. For a time, Ogden hoped Basic English would be used for teaching English as a second language, but because Basic English permits the full complexity of English grammar, this was not practical. [C. K. Ogden]

Basple

All words are single syllables, and it is easy to piece together new words. [Kumouri Endriago]

Berendt

"From time to time you come across something so stupefyingly daft that you can only shake your head in bewilderment that someone could expend so much time and labor to produce such a sorry result." -- Paul Bartlett [Alfred Berendt]

Bitruscan

Minimalist language. [Jay Bowks]

Blissymbolics

Included in Bibliography of Planned Languages. [Charles Kasiel Bliss]

Blitz English

Blitz English is a simplified language with simplified grammar and a simplified vocabulary of around 850 of the most useful words. It is based on English and it is easily understood by native English speakers as well as by those for whom English is a second language. It is possible to master Blitz English within 2 weeks, also by persons of a more advanced age or with an aversion to learning foreign languages. [Mark Hucko]

Bolak

An international auxiliary language created and funded by Leon Bollack that caught the attention of H.G. Wells. Monsieur Bollack later supported Ido. [Leon Bollack]

Bonjang

Bonjang is a language that evokes images of bamboo groves, misty mountain escarpments, and ancient temples. It is the language of the magical halflings of the Eastern Isles. It is a highly regular language with elegant simplicity. [Victor Medrano]

Brandonian

Brandonian gender is determined differently than in most other Romance languages: nouns ending in a consonant or O are masculine, and ones ending in A or E are feminine. Most masculine nouns end in a consonant, except when it would be impossible to pronounce the word, so an O is added. In the same fashion, most feminine nouns end in a double letter plus an E, except for when pronunciation is impossible. Perhaps the most unique aspect of Brandonian is that double letters followed by an E, found in feminine words, are pronounced differently than their singular counterparts. [Jordan Kay]

Broken German

This language is by far the simplest of German dialects. Most of it still remains in my mind, but I will continue to document it. I love this language. [Joshua E. Horn]

Cacone

Only information is in the Bibliography of Planned Languages. [Daniel Sacks]

Canis

Canis is simple and logical, but above that, honest! Canis acquired its vocabulary mainly from Romance and African languages. Canis' grammar is a mix of Romance and Germanic influences, which makes it easy to learn. [Ron de Leeuw]

Ceiteish

It uses a ton of lenition and uses modified English-esque grammar. [Eric Anger]

Celltiecc

Celltiecc is, to date, the only truly Celtic auxiliary language. While Brithenig and Breathanach imagine a language that would have occurred had Latin displaced Celtic languages, Celltiecc is actually a lingua franca for Celtic speakers, not Romance-based. Site #1 is actually quite out-of-date and is about 120 words short (the lexicon has about 250 words). For more updated information, go to the Celltiecc mailing list at Site #2. Created in 1998 but revived in 2003 and still in the works, so any estimate of dictionary size will be out-of-date soon. Well about 250, I think. [Duke Keenan; Nathaniel Ament-Stone; Dean Powell]

Ceqli

Rex F. May writes, "Since it was originally intended as a replacement for Loglan, Ceqli (cheng-li) began as a logical language. However, the goals of the language have changed since then. It has abandoned being completely unambiguous; instead it seeks to provide the option of being unambiguous in most cases, while allowing very concise ambiguous forms. Seeing how concise these forms can get has been a focus of the language lately, leading to the criticism that it is a 'language of newspaper headlines'. Its grammar has also changed from the predicate-based structure of Loglan, where any predicate can be a noun, verb, or modifier, based on its position in the sentence, to one more based on natural languages, which distinguishes nouns and verbs." [Rex F. May]

Choton

Now this isn't your run-of-the-mill romance auxlang (which has been done to death already), but rather it is based upon English (as the most used natural language for international communication), German (as the second-most important Germanic language) and Japanese (since East-Asian languages are generally completely ignored by auxlangs, with Japanese being the most important there, and also the most suited one). Along with this go a very simple and quick to grasp grammar and a completely phonetic spelling, without going overboard by the abounding use of unusual special characters - only two of them (instead of 7 as in Esperanto) for which a very simple alternative is presented. An optional unique script is also present. [Pascal A. Kramm]

cni-vcti

The Sanivesta (also pronounced /chemi-bechedi/ or /semi-vesti/): This language is a door to my Begedi language and is known as VZTI in CNI-VCTI. It has a similar pronunciation system except in few number of cases. It also use the Ishtiei scripting sysyem. [Omid Ghayour]

Common Germanic

Common Germanic is a Germanic-based language intended to bring Germanic-speakers back from Romance influence, and restore as much Germanic syntax and vocabulary as possible. [James Johnson]

Comunleng

Intended to be easy for someone who speaks both a Northern and a Southern European language. Meant to be more flexible than Esperanto.

Cosmian

Qôsmianî (or Cosmian, as its author called it in English) is an international auxiliary language created by Wilbur M. Law Beatty, and published in 1922... [it is] one of the funniest and most endearingly quirky proposals for an international language ever published, and it most definitely deserves to have a presence on the web. These Qôsmianî pages are my tribute to Beatty's warped genius. [Wilbur M. Law Beatty]

Cyberyak

A creative language for the Internet, with all words based on just 220 roots. It even has a variant, Microyak, with just 50 words. [Eric Beaubien]

Daisilingo

To achieve simple syllable structure: One consonant + one vowel, plus some variances for vowel. Equal syllable size with most European languages. Good for singing, as well as practical. [Jian Huang]

Deviasew

The second language of the Elves, Men, Dwarves and Halflings of the land of Câlnima ("Land"), Deviasew has a Latinate grammar, with a vocabulary derived from Hebrew, English, French and Spanish. The name Deviasew itself is the plural of Devia (from Hebrew devar, "word"). [Jonathan North Washington]

Dosian

The language has a somewhat different layout than other Romance languages and has slightly different inflections - and a larger set of phonemes. [Steve Nickolas (Dosius/Usotsuki)]

Dunia

Dunia is unique in the scope of its vocabulary, with different parts of speech typically drawn from a single language. Most verbs are from Spanish, most common nouns are from English, most scientific nouns are from Latin, most adjectives are from Hindi/Urdu, most simple adverbs are from Russian, and so forth. [Ed Robertson]

Dutton Speedwords

This language was invented as a shorthand system, as well as a language, and emphasizes extremely short words. It is now being promoted as Rap Lin Rie by Bob Petry. [Reginald J.G. Dutton]

e2

Some thoughts of grammar - to be in lines of simplicity and regularity (and to bring some action to Esperanto waters). [Sindelka]

Earth Language

EL is a multi-method language based on ideographics read with each user's native language; each ideograph is linked to a hand sign. EL has phonetics and rational systems for naming and abbreviation too. For all these functions, it uses only 89 bases including grammatical signs and numerals; each fundamental symbol is visually understandable based on a common element of human recognition and the earth. [Yoshiko F. McFarland]

EDA

The Edanic language is easy Italian. EDA doesn't consist of words that are derived from different languages. The Edanic vocabulary (especially nouns, adjectives and infinitives) is only derived from the Italian language. EDA transforms Italian into a new language, which is more regular with regard to spelling, stress, pronunciation, and grammar. [Arne Arotnow]

ehmay ghee chah

Not much about ehmay ghee chah is available online, but a $17 book is available. [Elmer J. Hankes]

Ekspreso

It's the language for people in a hurry. "La lingua pro la persona in haste" is it's motto. [Jay Bowks]

Esperando

Esperando estan la moderna linguo por la internaciona komunikaciono. [Jay Bowks]

Esperanto

Esperanto is the most successful constructed language ever, with perhaps a million speakers in the world (estimates vary from 100,000 to 15 million), concentrated in Europe but also with pockets of speakers in Japan and China. Esperanto has more books, periodicals and radio broadcasts using it than any other auxiliary language. It is a classic and required study for anyone serious about constructed languages. It has spawned more offspring than any other constructed language, with many reform projects, the most prominent of which is Ido. [Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof]

Esperanto de DLT

A modification of Esperanto to make it better able to serve as the interlingua of a many-to-many language translation system. [P. M. Witkam]

Esperanto sen Fleksio

A reform of Esperanto that eliminates flexions. [Rick Harrison]

Essential World English

[Lancelot Hogben]

Etwu

The secret organization Eternia has created the international language, Etwu, an extremely regularized language based on French and English. [Eternia]

Eurana

[Muhammad Selim]

EuroEnglish

The first worldwide joke about constructed language.

Eurolang

Hunt designed Eurolang to be the language of the European Union, and he had some aggressive goals for ease of learning (ability to learn in a weekend). Unlike Esperanto, Eurolang has more freely borrowed words from English. [Philip Hunt]

Eurolengo

About the only thing interesting about Eurolengo is that the author claims the primary sources of vocabulary are English and Spanish. Otherwise it is just another Euroclone. [Leslie Jones]

Europan

An artificial language proposed as an auxiliary European language. Little is known of it, other than a citation in WordNet.

Europeano

It's the resurrection of Latino sine Flexione or Interlingua de Peano, with a more modern vocabulary, especially in the field of new technologies and scientific nomenclature: a language for use by the European Community ready made and able. [Jay Bowks]

Farlingo

This language is intended for computer translation as an intermediate one for any conlangs and natural languages. It uses only symbols of USA keyboard. [Vladimir Farber & Matvei Farber]

Fasile

[B. Egon Breitenbach]

Folkspraak

Folkspraak is an international auxiliary language intended as a pan-Germanic language, easily learned by speakers of English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Afrikaans, Frisian and other Germanic languages. Folkspraak is an attempt to distill the Germanic languages. (See Tutonish.) [Jeffrey Henning]

Frater

Frater is a Euroclone from Asia, with a Classical (Greek and Latin) vocabulary, but with the roots somewhat modified to better suit the palate of Chinese, Japanese and other Asian-language speakers. To make it easier for Asian speakers, the language has only five vowels and thirteen consonants (bdfgjklmnprst) but permits more consonant clusters than might be expected given Chinese and Japanese phonotactics. [Pham Xuan Thai]

Frater 2

A planned reform of Frater. [Paul Bartlett]

Frionske

Frionske is a language based on Dutch and Dutch dialects, with some Scandinavian influences, and is great to use in the whole of the Netherlands/Belgium and Low German areas, and nice for Dutch people who feel another language is too difficult. If you want to learn Frionske, please e-mail me. [Site #2 is only in Dutch.] [Stefan Lubbersen]

Geoglot

Only information is in the Bibliography of Planned Languages. [Timothy J. Donoghue]

Gilo

The first international auxiliary language to use the English vocabulary as a base. It also uses the Roget system to classify the meanings of the words. [Alan Giles]

Globish

One of two languages with this name, Globish is a kind of basic US English dedicated to international discussion between non-born English speaking people. [Jean-Paul Nerrière]

Globish

One of two languages with this name, Globish is Parallel English with neat spelling. Globish uses small letters (no capitals) with triple dot (...) to end a sentence. All words are spelled per sound, according to standard symbol-sound relations (tentative scheme offered). This is no attempt to change spellings within current English. That is unpractical. But a parallel language can work. Capitals are used to start words (such as names) if respelling is not acceptable due to any reason. English language has many merits but its spellings are illogical and difficult. It is not feasible to reform spellings in current English. But it is feasible to use Globish, with neat spellings, as a parallel language. Globish is written in a slightly different Roman script, which is available on all machines. India is world's largest user of English language, next to USA, UK. Several Indians like the concept of Globish. Moreover, there is no antagonism towards English language in India, as is the case with some European countries. India is growing in world influence. So Globish (as per Indian perception) has potential to grow. Globish would be a full-fedged language with literature, dictionaries etc. eventually when the idea becomes popular worldwide. Surely the intelligent human race deserves a logical linked language. Name Globish, symbol-sound relations are tentative. Things would eveolve with time. [Madhukar Gogate]

Glosa

Hogben published a draft form of the language, which he called Interglossa, in 1943, with Ashby and Clark preparing a modified version, called Glosa, in 1981. The language is generally criticized by constructed language enthusiasts, because it has basically not specified a grammar, relying instead upon English grammar. The vocabulary is Classical (Greek and Latin) and contains about a thousand words. [Wendy Ashby and Ross Clark]

Graatska

Graatskan was derived from Low and High German as well as English. Many of the grammatical ideas such as genitive forms and possessives have been derived from English and German. This language contains roots from English and German, but the words are however modified to their own "Graatskan" uniqueness. This project is very serious and is a goal of mine to complete and master. [Richard Valler (MDR)]

Ido

With a name meaning "derived from" in Esperanto, Ido is a modification of Esperanto. [Louis de Beaufront, Louis Couturat]

Inklišche

Inklišche is an English written phonetically. It has existed already for a long time, but it's usually called "Steenkolen Engels", which literally translated means "Coal English". [Stefan Lubbersen]

Inrilan

Inrilan is a quick, easy-to-learn language that has been designed for the Internet. It supersedes all natural languages, and was designed to become the principal universal Internet language. In short: "A global language for the global village." [The Inrilan Consortium]

Intal

"One of the pamphlets I got was ... was the Standard-Grammar of the Auxiliary Language Intal by Erich Weferling. It was written entirely in Intal, yet I read it painlessly. It had the regularity of Ido (or Esperanto) but was as at-sight-readable as Interlingua. I really felt that this was the ideal IAL. It had a few idiosyncrasies like an Esperantine 'kv' in words that ought to have 'qu' and the 'c' being pronounced 'sh,' but these were quite minor to me. Intal became the language I pushed. And in fact I would still be a devotee of Intal if I had not found, in a used book store, Jespersen's book An International Language, where he defined Novial. I found that everything I liked about Intal had been anticipated by Jespersen, and so it is now Novial that I now favor." - Bruce Gilson [Erich Weferling]

Inter-esperanto

Inter-esperanto, also known as Baza, is a bridge language for use between speakers of Esperanto and languages derived from Esperanto, such as Ido, Mondlango, etc. [Greg Hoover, Initiator]

Intergermansk

It's an easy and efficient way of communication for speakers of Germanic languages. [Pascal A. Kramm]

Interglossa

Hogben published a draft form of the language, which he called Interglossa, in 1943. It survives today as Glosa. [Lancelot Hogben]

InterLang

A language born from the Internet and made to be used on the Internet, InterLang is somewhat unique in that its design is open to any interested party. Simply visit the home page, sign in, and begin sharing your expertise in language creation in forming this brand new tongue. [Douglas Green, Kristian Jarventaus, Kevin Albrecht]

Interlingua

Developed by an organization that was originally founded in New York in 1924 to choose one constructed language to support as an auxiliary, the International Auxiliary Language Association eventually created its own language, with a grammar derived from the Romance languages and a vocabulary drawn from western European languages. Not to be confused with Latino Sine Flexione, which was later called Interlingua. (Before IALA/Interlingua, the Academia pro Interlingua had a language with the same name; they later gave Gode permission to use the name after the IALA had informally adopted it.) [International Auxiliary Language Association]

Interlingue

A name used for Occidental, after 1948.

International Sign Language (ISL)

ISL (AKA Gestuno) is an international sign language created by members of the international Deaf community. "Gestuno is to Deaf as Esperanto is to Hearing." [World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf]

Intero

Every attempt was made to make Intero more regular than Esperanto. [Marq Thompson and Jon]

Jezik Slovianaja

It is a language with Polish or Slavic words and my own grammar, similar to Polish grammar. [Pawel Ciupak]

Jigwa

An international language meant to correct the European bias of most of its competitors, by drawing primarily on Asian languages. [Rick Harrison; et al]

Kali-sise

The nickname of this language says it all; that is, it includes every phoneme used in the language: /p/, /t/, /k/, /s/, /l/, /n/ and /i/, /a/, /e/ and /u/. If you believe the single greatest challenge of learning an auxlang is mastering its phonology, than Pitakesulina is for you. It has the simplest phonology of any IAL. [Jeffrey Henning]

KOD

Assuming that grammar is the most difficult part of language learning, KOD restricts itself to thorough relexicalization of natural languages, including all elements of morphosyntax (case markers etc); syntax and phrase structure are presumed to be negligible. Users are to apply the grammar of their native languages to these substitute lexemes - the basic principle appears to amount to a spoken form for interlinear translations. [Johann Vielberth]

Kokipopi

I made this up as kind of a sarcastic joke against auxiliary languages, and I think it came out rather well (although of course no one could ever possibly have any idea what you're saying). It's very, very simple, only four phonemes, with an easy-to-understand morphology. [Eric Sleator McGill]

Kon'ya

To be as easy to learn for as many people as possible. [Larry Sulky]

Kosmal Idioma

Only information is in the Bibliography of Planned Languages. [José Guardiola]

LáAdan

Elgin, noted author of The Gentle Art Of Verbal Self Defence series of books, created LáAdan as an experiment to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Specifically, she felt that English and most natural languages were better suited for expressing the views of men than women. She designed LáAdan to enable women to better give voice to their viewpoints, and the lexicon of LáAdan, more than any other constructed language, has many unique concepts that are expressed in LáAdan in one word but cannot be easily expressed in natural languages. Elgin included LáAdan in her Native Tongue science-fiction trilogy. Unfortunately, little of the language has been documented on the Internet. [Suzette Haden Elgin]

Lalortel

Only information is in the Bibliography of Planned Languages. [Robert N. Yetter]

Langue Nouvelle

The earliest example of a modern international auxiliary language. (Earlier international auxiliary languages had been philosophical or categorizing languages.) [Faiguet]

LANGUST

Picture language for all nations. [Grigoriy Korolev]

Lara

Most of the words are composed of no more than two syllables. The language is euphonious and very easy to learn and pronounce by people that speak Romance, Germanic or Slavic languages. At present, Lara language site is in Italian but the English version is partially constructed. [Alessandro Pedicelli]

Latalmish

This is an extremely simple language to learn: simple grammar, mechanics, and vocabulary. [Ian Burleson]

Latineo

Latineo is a thorough Latinization and simplification of Esperanto. [Jay Bowks]

Latino Moderne

Latino Moderne is based on IALA Interlingua. The vocabulary for LM is the same as that of Interlingua, but Stark has rejected Interlingua's grammar, which he views as oversimplified and hard to use in practice, especially in regards to pronouns. The grammar of LM is instead a distillation of that of ancient Latin and the modern Romance languages. Learning Latino Moderne can serve as a good foundation for later study of Classical Latin or a modern Romance language. [David Th. Stark]

Latino Sine Flexione

Peano felt that - while the Latin vocabulary is known to many people through its descendant languages and scientific borrowings - its inflexional system and syntax were too complex. By stripping Latin of its "ponderous burden of inflexions", Peano hoped to design the ideal auxiliary language. Latino Sine Flexione's vocabulary consists of all Latin words (including Latin borrowings of Greek terms) and the growing collection of common "international" words. Peano originally called the language Latino sine Flexione ("Latin without inflections") then changed the name to Interlingua. Since the IALA's Interlingua is now more well known, Peano's language is usually referred to by its original name. [Giuseppe Peano]

Latinvlo

Latinvlo's vocabulary is based directly on that of Latin. Therefore, two-way dictionaries already exist for numerous national languages. [Stephen Houghton / Paul Bartlett]

Linear A/Minoan

This language is a possible reconstruction of the Minoan language that died out around 2300 years ago. [Edward Hatfield]

Lingua Franca Nova

Lingua Franca Nova is phonetically spelled, has a simple and regular grammar based on study of creole languages, and yet manages to retain a degree of "naturalness" to the European ear. It is simpler than Esperanto, more regular than Interlingua, and more recognizable (to the European reader) than Glosa. It is also rather pleasant in sound. [Dr. C. George Boeree]

Liñxî

I decided to try my hand at this language after reading a bit about Ido, and after someone with whom I communicate mentioned the idea of verb prefixes of a unique, non-Roman script. I chose not to try a unique script quite yet, thinking that would be a bit too complex at this point (especially considering the fact that I have no means whatsoever to create a typeface, and plain images are too clumsy). Essentially, it is an effort to create a relatively simple language, possibly for the purpose of being an international language such as Esperanto or Ido. [Andrew J. Meilstrup]

Lips Kith

Scarisbrick published the language in Lips Kith, a world language, Trowbridge: Lansdown, 1919 (141 p.). It's a mix of naturalism and schematicism, as illustrated by the Paternoster and the first ten numbers: Koor Pater, wes-amun per-an wolk-alon, ko-te nom mak-Es-u tek-sak..., tun, twi, tri, pes, pen, sek, sep, nok, nik, tek. [Scarisbrick, Joseph]

Lone

Lone is an isolating language that has a pan-European vocabulary. Thus it combines, among others, words from Romance, Slavic and Germanic languages (in order of importance). Lone (pronounced something like lawnay or loné) is a simple constructed language that is still under construction. Lone's purpose is to be a new kind of Euroclone combining vocabulary from languages all around the Europe. (Considering the special nature of Lone's words it is quite probably that some words must be drawn from languages outside the Europe.) Lone briefly 1. Every word is read as it is written. The accent falls always on the first syllable. 2. The syntax: subject, predicate, object. 3. The nouns appear only in one form. There isn't singular or plural. The amount is defined with numerals or adjectives. 4. Simple qualifiers precede the word that they qualify. Prepositional qualifiers follow it. 5. In combined words the qualifier precedes the main word. 6. Adjectives and adverbs are similar. The comparison is conducted with the help of particles. 7. The verbs are not inflected. Tense (aspect) and modus are formed with the help of particles. 8. The syntax can be altered, if it doesn't affect the meaning of the sentence. Lone step by step 1.a) Every word is read as it is written. Lone's writing is phonetic. In other words every word is read as it is written and every word is written as it is said. Thus knowing the sounds of the letters enables to read and write Lone. The concept is naive but it is also smart and ideal. a a i i r r b b j ? s s c ? k k? t t? d d l l u u e e m m v v f f n n z z g g o o h h p p? Most of the consonants are similar to their common English sounds with the following exceptions: c is pronounced as sh in ship. j is pronounced as s in measure. r is trilled as in Spanish and Russian. Also the French and the German r sounds will do. Using the English r is strongly discouraged. 1.b) The accent falls on the first syllable. 2. The syntax: subject, predicate, object. The main syntax is the same as in English. Note that it doesn't change in question. tora tiger rata rat case chase tora case rata. The tiger chases the rat. rata case tora. The rat chases the tiger. 3. The nouns have united singular and plural form In Lone there is no singular nor plural form of the noun. Instead the number (as well as the quantity) is indicated by other words, such as numerals and adjectives, that precede the qualified noun. tora tiger unu tora a tiger, one tiger mega tora million tigers boku tora a lot of tigers suna sand zero suna no sand at all boku suna a lot of sand 4.a) Simple qualifiers precede the word that they qualify. Adjectives preced the noun that they qualify. joli pretty nove new siti city joli siti pretty city nove siti new city nove joli siti new pretty city Adverbs precede the verb that they qualify. nataca Natasha (a person's name) joli pretty rede talk joli nataca rede. Pretty Natasha talks. nataca joli rede. Natasha talks prettily. joli nataca joli rede. Pretty Natasha talks prettily. 4. b) Prepositional qualifiers follow the word that they qualify. siti city dona lady rusia Russia siti na rusia a Russian city (a city in Russia) dona de rusia a Russian lady (a lady from Russia) 5. In combined words the qualifier precedes the main word. Lone's combined words are ideally similar to those of English. In Lone they are attached together with a middle dot (·). mare sea riba fish mare·riba seafish, fish of the sea 6.a) Adjectives and adverbs are similar. As earlier stated, the adjectives and adverbs precede the word that they qualify. sugo vida a spectacular life dona sugo vida. A lady lives spectacularly. A lady leads a spectacular life. The prepositional qualifiers follow the word that they qualify. note be repo a night without rest, a restless night saca rabota be repo. Sasha works without rest. 7. Verbs are not inflected. Verbs do not indicate tense nor aspect. The tense is indicated by the following particles. ge the past nu the present va the future nataca ge rede. Natasha talked (in the past). nataca nu rede. Natasha talks (at the moment). nataca va rede. Natasha will talk (in the future). © 2002 Risto Kupsala, rkupsala@tols17.oulu.fi [Risto Kupsala]

Luni

Luni is my personal view of a world language for basic communication. I wished to obtain maximum simplicity and cultural neutrality. [Florent Garet]

Lusane

Only information is in the Bibliography of Planned Languages. [Luis Sainz Lopez-Negrete]

Lusiaquía

It is a one-of-a-kind language because I think this language has nice sounding words! I've also translated some common names into Lusiaquía, so please take a look at Lusiaquía Names. [Stefan Lubbersen]

Magistri Linguio

Paul Bartlett has been a tireless documenter of past IAL projects and has carefully typed and formatted The Master Language, a language proposal published in 1907. Magistri Linguio (its name translated to its vocabulary) is based on Latin, the long-time IAL of Europe. The language uses a modified Latin vocabulary with English word order in place of the Latin declensional system. Houghton did not actually develop a dictionary, instead specifying how existing Latin words would be transformed to their Magistri Linguio forms. An interesting project for someone would be to actually adapt the Latin lexicon to provide a dictionary for the language. [Stephen Chase Houghton]

Mapalgetian Continental Basic Language

Uses accents to denote pronunciation, no diphthongs, simple verb conjugation. [Greg Johnston]

Meiko

Meiko is designed to be an auxiliary language for Europe. It is a mix of several European languages but is centered on French. [Florent Garet]

Microyak

See Cyberyak.

Mineng

Mineng was designed to be a very open-ended language, in which different forms of communicating ideas in Indo-European languages can coexist with one another, providing the speaker with a starting point and the tools to mold the language to their needs, which results in an expanded range of expression, from simple messages to elaborate words expressing a number of subtleties. [tli-ze]

Mondlango

Mondlango is also known as Ulango. It is an international language. Briefly, Mondlango=Esperanto+English. [Mr. He Yafu]

Mundo-Lingue

[Julius Lott]

Nabel

Yet another Euroclone; the most interesting thing is the name, Nabel, which is from either Neo (new) and Babel, or the initials could stand for "Not Another Bloody Euroclone Language!" This language was created solely for the purposes of completing the Problem-Solving section of the Key Skills part of an NVQ qualification in the UK. [Damon M. Lord]

Nadsat

Nadsat is the language (slang, actually) used by gangs of violent English teenagers in the now-classic book and movie A Clockwork Orange. This English slang serves a serious purpose in the book, which is to help keep the violence of the protagonist (who rapes, murders and steals) from becoming unbearable to the reader. Nadsat is the best slang ever invented, with over 300 words, many of them cleverly derived from Russian (e.g, Russian nadsat, "-teen"). [Anthony Burgess]

Nedertæl

It has a special alphabet (Roman based) which consists of 38 characters and a few symbols as well. [Stefan Lubbersen]

Nemeritvie

Nemeritvish (Nemeritvie in its own langauge) is a conlang created by Argentine Luciano Nicolás Parisi circa 1996, and nowadays growing continuously. Nemeritvish is a language derived from Latin, and it could be considered a Romance language. From the very beginning, Nemeritvish was created with the objective of become a language that could make up for and cover absolutely every aspect of the linguistic communication that natural languages cover, even those with such an extensive vocabulary as English, French, Spanish, Japanese, etc. That is to say, that it's a language that really could be used, that it's so complex and varied when referring to technical terms, vulgarism, informal modes, etc. [Luciano Nicolás Parisi]

Neo

An international language that for a time seemed like it might supplant Interlingua, but instead went gently into that good night. [Arturo Alfandari]

Nesupian

The language has been my project for three years but now is the first time I am actually serious about it. It is constant and without irregularities. It is widely based on Romance but with less of a Romance and more of a Slav feeling. [Dacian]

Novial

Novial (an acronym for New International Auxiliary Language) was designed primarily from two other languages, Ido and Occidental. [Otto Jespersen]

Novial 98

A promising modernization of Novial by an open committee of Internet participants (NOVIAL-L). The design goal is to improve the regularity and recognizability of Novial, while expanding the lexicon to include terms for post-1928 concepts. [NOVIAL-L]

Novial Pro

[Marcos Franco]

Noxilo

Unlike most other international auxiliary languages, NOXILO /no-shee-lo/ allows most users (American, Chinese, French, German, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Malaysian, Russian, Spanish, Thai, etc.) to write and speak in the word order of their mother tongue or in a similar word order. [Mizuta Sentaro]

Nuspic

This language is an attempt to remodel the English alphabet to make it perfectly phonetic. This update has changed the alphabet to 30 characters, with 19 consonants and 11 vowels. [Przybylowicz]

Occidental

An international language using a Romance vocabulary, intended almost solely for Western speakers. The language is so naturalistic that Don Harlow says, "a linguist unfamiliar with it might be forgiven for assuming it to be a minor Romance dialect that had grown up after the collapse of Rome." Inspired by Mundo-Lingue, Occidental itself served as an inspiration for Novial. [Edgar von Wahl]

Omnesian

In Omnesian, the sound /k/ is always represented as "ch," giving it a distinct "ancient" look. Omnesian has a unique long-short vowel determination system, which uses the surrounding consonants of a vowel for determination. There is also a silent "e" which is used to make vowels long that would otherwise be short. The language includes many accent marks, such as ' (denotes stress), ` (differentiates alike words), ^ (denotes an accented word in succession with a non-accented one), and ~ (represents a final N). [Jordan Kay]

Omnial

Omnial is a highly euphonic and easy to learn language. The best way to solve the problem of language barrier is to use an international language, but Omnial is not intended to supplant or replace any national language. [Elx Amnial]

Pan-kel

Only information is in the Bibliography of Planned Languages. [Max Wald]

Pasilogia

Only information is in the Bibliography of Planned Languages. [Edward Groves]

Patrienish

Along with English and Sanskrit, Patrienish is the official language of the Inner Realm of Patria. Based on Latin/Romance family roots, Patrienish also contains some elements of Sanskrit grammar, such as a dual number, as well as a few Anglo-Saxon or Germanic elements. A "classical" version of Patrienish - with many Sanskrit borrowings and no definite/indefinite articles - has become the official standard version of Patrienish that is now taught in schools in Patria. [Mike Brooker]

Pictban

No one knows what Farley Mowat's Alban people spoke, so this is just a tribute to them. [Dtsdesign]

Picture Language

This serious attempt at an IAL offers picture symbols that can very accurately represent a broad range of specific and abstract concepts, with generalized rules for inventing and interpreting symbols. The www.picturelanguage.com site offers a primer, a grammar, etymologies and sample texts. [Wally Flint]

Pisina

The Pisina language combines the only sounds that the world population can naturally pronounce regardless of their mother tongue, and balances complexity vs. ambiguity to their common lowest possible degree. Pisina has been primarily designed to be used as an interface medium between a computer and human users. [µ]

Platio

Very simple to learn, yet very expressive. [J Carbajal]

Poliespo

A bizarre combination of Esperanto and Cherokee. [Nvwtohiyada Idehesdi Sequoyah (Billy Joe Waldon)]

Progressiva

The vocabulary is based on European languages (English and Spanish above all), with the grammar mainly on English and Italian in order to be both simple and evocative. [Suhardian,aka Mattia Suardi]

Projet d'une langue universelle presente a la convention nationale

Only information is in the Bibliography of Planned Languages. [Jean Delormel]

Proslava

Proslava contains major features common to most Slavic languages, such as Perfective/Imperfective aspect dichotomy, word order and indefinite article relation, basic gender agreement, common root ablaut changes, common word stock. It is mostly based on Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, and Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian languages as the most conservative ones. With all that, Proslava is greatly reduced and simplified so that it can serve as a great introduction to Slavic languages for all non-Slavic speakers, and as a possible means of communication between different Slavic nations if they choose it over English or Chinese as lingua francas. [George ( Juraj ) Doudy]

Purdik

It uses an alphabet that is unique to Central Europe. It is a Slavic clone language involving aspects of Czech, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian and Bulgarian. It also has some English and German aspects as well. It involves a highly easy grammar with vocabulary that is exceptionally well-researched and used. [Steffen M. Turnipseed]

Pushakian

Very easy grammar, based basically on nouns, verbs & adjectives. [Dr X]

Quebh

The word patterns are unique because of rarely used letters. [Jake "Fat Kid" Zeroth]

Romana

This language is a model of how the Latin language would have evolved if it had continued to be spoken until today, without any outside influences. The grammar and vocabulary is strictly Latin, based greatly on medieval Latin grammar and vocabulary, as well as vulgar Latin. [Dan Tohatan]

Romanico

Romániço can be thought of as the intellectual love child of Esperanto and Interlingua: it features the former's regularity and ease of use with the latter's more natural word stock and pronunciation. [Anonymous]

Romanid

It has no special unique features as compared to the other romlangs (Romance constructed languages). However, it is the most successful modern conlang that has Hungarian origin. Since it comes from the eastern side of the Iron Curtain, it is not significantly influenced by contemporary Western projects (e.g., Interlingua). [Zoltán Magyar]

Romanova

Language materials have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian and more languages, making it one of the most serious of the newly constructed contenders for IALs. [multiple contributors]

Rootian English

Rootian's main principle is that all its words must be either roots or (natively) composed of roots. Although short roots are allowed to be imported, derived words are not. [Joris Bollen]

Safo

Included in Bibliography of Planned Languages. [Andreas Eckardt]

San Corrado Langue

It is the fictional pidgin language of a fictional land: the People's Republic of San Corrado. [Jan Skrob]

SASXSEK

Lexicon derived from a diverity of languages, simple mostly isolating grammar. Small phonemic inventory with a generous set of allophones for easy pronunciation. [Dana Nutter]

Sen:esepera

I designed Sen:esepera to reform Esperanto to make it easier to pronounce. Where Esperanto has 23 consonants, Sen:esepera has only the 14 most commonly used consonants; where Esperanto permits complex consonant clusters (e.g., spr), Sen:esepera only permits clusters using nasals. Sen:esepera is also noteworthy for its kinship terms, capable of concisely expressing thousands of familial relationships. [Jeffrey Henning]

Sermo

Sermo can be understood without study by almost all speakers of Romance languages. It can be used to immediately communicate; Sermo is a simple and phonetic language. [Jose Soares Da Silva]

Signuno

Signuno is a method to sign regular Esperanto; it aims to strengthen Esperanto's position as a candidate IAL.

Silarg

Argtxep: "The Concept of the Citadel". With Silarg, an artificial language for the lesbians & gay. Why? Not "to isolate us" a little more, some would say. Instead, for example, foreigners could communicate in spite of their linguistic differences, anywhere. [JP Mallaroni]

Simpekso

Verb tense indicators, common descriptors to both verbs and adverbs, strict setence order, few dipthongs, and unambiguous pronunciation. Simpekso is completely phonetic. [Jonathon Grimes]

Simpenga

Simpenga, pronounced /sim-PEN-ga/, is a contraction of Simpela Engelisa, "Simple English." The language is just a phonetically simpler version of Basic English. Yawn. [Jeffrey Henning]

Simpla

It is a language that is simple like Esperanto but easier for English-speaking peoples. Note: This Language has been discontinued. Sorry :( [Samuel Fredrickson]

SLOVIO

This language is unique in the fact that it is understood without learning by around 400 million speakers of Slavic languages. It has a simplified grammar and spelling and one can read and write it on just about any computer of the world. It uses the basic English alphabet without any additional letters, accents or signs to express all the usual sounds common for Slavic languages. Its simple spelling, pronunciation and grammar make this language easy to learn by all speakers of all languages. And because it is based on the largest European language group, on closely related languages, it can be understood without learning by a millions of people and thus, unlike most constructed languages, it has a natural base of millions of speakers. [Mark Hucko]

Solresol

The cleverest philosophical language, the earliest constructed language to be successful and the most likely to be learned by Julie Andrews. Solresol is based on the musical scale and has just seven syllables: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si. [Jean Francois Sudre]

Sona

[Kenneth Searight]

Speedtalk

In his science-fiction story Gulf, supermen of the future used a language called Speedtalk. This "verbal shorthand" assigned every word a unique phoneme, so that resultant sentences were as short as a few English words. Use of the language enabled the superman to think more quickly and to experience more in less time. [Robert A. Heinlein]

Speedwords

[Dutton, Reginald J. G.]

Spelin

Only information is in the Bibliography of Planned Languages. [Georg Bauer]

Spet

Spet is a reconstructed language inspired by Genesis 11 and can be known as the Proto-World Language. Here is the first sentence of the Lord's Prayer in Spet: Baba na mes sen tim kan el nine shengd@ (think of Papa me and the name saint>) [ACZ]

Suma

Suma is an a priori language, but is unusual for the category in that its vocabulary does not use a systematic classification system. The language allows only CV (consonant+vowel) syllables, for easy-to-pronounce words. [Barnett Russell]

Thequm

The language can be learned very easy by anyone. The pronunciation is not difficult. [Sami Kleit]

Tikasako

We were stuck at home for a snowday January 5, 2002, so I made this little language in half an hour as a joke. The thing is, some of my friends thought it was a good idea. Hmm. [Chris Paull (Zeke Fordsmender)]

tinico

It has open code; everybody can freely change it. The language started from the speech, and only later it was written. Therefore, the orthography is purely phonetic (basic Latin alphabet, without special marks neither accented letters). [Collective]

Tomato

The author writes, "[Tomato] can bring peace to the world and harmony to the soul as well as food to the stomach if not money to the purse. It still doesn't mean anything as a word within itself (TO-MATO = ??-COAT) but is saucy and euphonic. At the trailing edge of linguistic genetic evolution, after millions of minute prunings tramplings and debuggings, at last we have prepared for you these..." [Catty]

Transitional English

It is the only complete simplification, grammatical and lexical, of English -- the most widely spoken natural language, entailing phonetic spelling, simplified morphology, syntax, and lexicon in order to facilitate the quickest, easiest, and most economical acquisition of the language by speakers of other languages. [Prof. John Lihani, Ph.D.]

Tutonish

Molee designed Tutonish as an "Anglo-German union tongue" and actually intended for it to be not just an international auxiliary language but the new mother tongue of the Germanic-speaking peoples, supplanting their native languages. Tutonish has a phonetic spelling, a simplified grammar and a vocabulary drawn primarily from German and English. (See Folkspraak for a modern, ongoing effort at designing a pan-Germanic language.) [Elias Molee]

UNI

[E. Wainscott]

Unish

A new international language that is based on 16 different languages. [The site is in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean.] [Language Research Institute, Sejong University]

Unitario

A Euroclone with a vocabulary based extensively on Spanish. Contrast with Eurolengo. [M. Pleyer]

Universal

The most characteristic feature of Universal is its use of inversion to create antonyms: mega `big, great' -> gema `small' donu `give' -> nodu `receive' za `the' -> az `a(n)' tela `far, distant' -> leta `near, close' Indeed, this is so characteristic that "one of its creators suggested in jest that it should be called Inversal". [G. I. Muravkin and L. I. Vasilevskij]

Universalglot

Universalglot, proposed in 1868 by Jean Pirro (1831-1886), a teacher in Lotharingen, seemed one of the most natural and agreeable: Ma senior! I sende evos un gramatik e un verb-bibel de un nuov glot nomed universal glot. In futur I scripterai evos semper in dit glot. However, this quite well designed project did not achieve any practical importance. -- Ulrich Matthias [Jean Pirro]

Uropi

[Joël Landais]

Uusisuom

An IAL based on Finnish, but with the irregularities and complications removed and certain non-Finnish features added. Vocabulary seems to be largely Finnish to my inexpert eyes. A non-IE Euroclone, perhaps. [Daniel Tammet]

Vinlandic

It is intended to give English speakers an introductory course in learning Germanic (primarily Scandinavian) languages. The grammar is primarily based on that of English, however there are some differences. The purpose of this is to help learners get the idea of a foreign language without completely overwhelming them right away. [Tony Senn]

Vling

Vling, inspired by Oriental xenophilia, uses the magic of tones to differentiate the parts of speech. By merely changing the tone, a word can be converted from a noun to a verb to an adjective to an adverb, et cetera. While 3000 words have been coined, not all have been defined yet. [Victor Medrano]

VOA Special English

The Voice Of America has daily broadcasts in Special English, a simplified English created at the height of the Cold War by the United States Information Agency to provide a more accessible English. News reports written in Special English use a limited wordlist of 1500 words, with simpler sentences spoken slower than regular English. [United States Information Agency]

Volapük

With a name meaning "world speech", Volapük became something of a fad in the late nineteenth century and was the second international auxiliary language to win thousands of adherents (after Solresol); it was the precursor to Esperanto in popularity. It has a vocabulary based primarily on English and German roots that have been somewhat simplified for ease of pronunciation and morphological analysis. Its grammar was difficult enough that enthusiasts were rarely able to actually learn to speak the language. The language was successfully reformed in the 1930s. If Esperanto is the GUI (Graphical User Interface) of auxiliary languages, than Volapük is the DOS of the field. The language is primarily of interest now for historical reasons. [Johann Martin Schleyer]

Volapük Revised

[A. de Jong]

Völkerverkehrssprache

Only information is in the Bibliography of Planned Languages. [C. Dietrich]

Vorlin

Harrison is approaching the design of Vorlin very professionally, and you can read his opinions about the requirements of an international language in an excellent essay on his web site. Harrison is the editor of the Journal Of Planned Languages and has prepared a detailed bibliography of constructed languages. He is arguably the foremost scholar of constructed languages working on the Internet today. Vorlin is most noted for its use of words with three letters for its base vocabulary. The language has changed significantly over the years and still has far to go, as Harrison restructures its vocabulary. This site is worth checking out periodically. [Rick Harrison]

xuxuxi

The first IAL designed using WordNet. [John Cowan]

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Updated on July 28, 2005 at 4:53 PM (GMT-5).