Ro - Conlang Profile	Advanced
Language Name Ro Language Author Rev. and Mrs. Edward Powell Foster Year Began 1906 Site Ro - site 1 Ro - site 2 Broken Link No Site Language English Site Author Rick Harrison Language Type philosophical language Editorial Like Solresol, Ro is a pasigraphy (an a priori philosophical language), with a vocabulary derived not from natural languages but from a classification structure. You can roughly guess the sense of a word by recognizing its initial letters; for instance, in Ro, bo- is the category of "sense-affecting matter", and color words (falling under this category) begin with bofo-: bofoc means "red", bofod means "orange" and bofof means "yellow". Unfortunately, if you make a typo in Ro, you've probably just spelled another word, and your spell checker is not going to catch the mistake... Uniqueness Because most words we use are general, the language tends to flow in short two or three letter morphemes. Language Sources Both a dictionary and an introductory text are still around. Check with interlibrary loan. Design Principles All of the language is stretched across the alphabet. Pronouns begin with A and mathematical words begin with Z, living things with L and M: mu are animals, mul are birds, mulca are swimming birds, mulcam is a duck. Interest Of Others The language was approved by the U. S. Congress as an American entry into the Auxiliary language effort. Also, his wife wrote the dictionary, and commandeered his imprimatur for it. However, she used it for her own comments. As best I recall, the word for "torture" glossed over to "cooking". Dictionary Yes Etymologies No Grammar Yes Sample Texts Yes Unique Script No Primer No Babel Text No Submitted By NA Updated By Jeffrey Henning Date Edited Monday, February 09, 2004 Description Of Update Added much better site, from Rick Harrison's latest. Date To Headline Tuesday, February 24, 2004 < Rivertongue  Ro  Rodlox's Unnamed Conlang >
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