| Language Name | Ceqli |
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| Language Author | Rex F. May |
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| Year Began | 1996 |
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| Site | Ceqli  |
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| Broken Link | No |
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| Site Language | English |
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| Language Type | international auxiliary language |
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| Uniqueness | 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." |
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| Language Sources | English, Mandarin, Hindi, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Indonesian, Esperanto, Loglan, Persian, Irish, Swahili, Korean, Rumanian, Tok Pisin, Rumanian, Arabic, Albanian, Norwegian, Dutch, Turkish, Swedish, Hebrew, Italian, Cantonese, Cherokee, Bengali, Fijian, Latin, Serbian, Yiddish, Portuguese, Greek, Burmese, Kampuchean, Finnish, Tongan, Hawaiian, Danish, Polish, Hungarian, Tamil, Hokkien, Sinhalese, Vietnamese, Czech, Tagalog, Glosa, Samoan, Latvian, Tahitian, etc. |
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| Design Principles | All morphemes of the form nCnV, one or more consonants followed by one or more vowels, with w, y, l, m, n, r q counted as vowels. Grammar isolating, with elements of English and Mandarin, SVO order, with VOS and OSV allowed. |
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| Interest Of Others | A Ceqli mailing list is available. |
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| Quotation | Kyu bwa? Ten pani, biru, kola. |
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| Explanation | '?' drink? Have water, beer, cola. |
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| Translation | How about a drink? We have water, beer, and cola. |
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| Dictionary | Yes |
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| Etymologies | No |
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| Grammar | Yes |
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| Sample Texts | No |
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| Unique Script | No |
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| Primer | No |
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| Babel Text | No |
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| Lexicon Size | 2,000 |
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| Submitted By | Jeffrey Henning |
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| Date Submitted | Friday, December 06, 2002 |
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| Updated By | Jeffrey Henning |
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| Date Edited | Saturday, July 24, 2004 |
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| Description Of Update | Added quote describing how language has evolved from a loglang into an IAL. |
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| Date To Headline | Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
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