Sona - Conlang Profile

Sona - Conlang Profile

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Language Name	Sona
Language Author	Kenneth Searight
Year Began	1935
Site	Sona - site 1 Sona - site 2 Sona - site 3
Broken Link	No
Site Language	English
Site Author	Rick Harrison
Language Type	international auxiliary language
Language Sources	A priori, but in his book Searight references Persian, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and English. Author seems to consider the language to sound very Japanese.
Design Principles	Like many, Searight sought to create an international auxiliary language less Eurocentric than {list of all euroclones here}. Sona is an isolating and agglomerative language. It attempts to use easy-to-pronounce consonants, has one- or two-syllable root terms, SVO form. Pronouns and the verb "to be" are (very) optional. There's a very minimal lexicon -- Searight mentions Roget's thesaurus -- but unlike similar tiny languages, Sona seems to be complete enough for real usage: 375 words (360 "radicals" plus 15 "particles").
Dictionary	Yes
Etymologies	No
Grammar	Yes
Sample Texts	No
Unique Script	No
Primer	Yes
Babel Text	No
Lexicon Size	375
Submitted By	NA
Updated By	Jeffrey Henning
Date Edited	Monday, March 15, 2004
Description Of Update	Added two new sites.
Date To Headline	Tuesday, March 09, 2004

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