Eurolengo
| Eurolengo | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Leslie Jones |
| Date | 1972 |
| Setting and usage | International auxiliary language |
| Users | None known |
| Purpose | |
| Latin | |
| Sources | Vocabulary from English and Spanish |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qel (local use) |
| Glottolog | None |
| IETF | art-x-euroleng |
Eurolengo is a constructed language invented by Leslie Jones in 1972.[1]: 156 It was constructed to be a common European language and "a practical tool for business and tourism."[1]: 154 [2]
The vocabulary consists of words borrowed from English and Spanish[3]: 1 and made to conform to a consistent phonetic and orthographic system. Critics find a Spanglish flavor to the language, and that "reading is only straightforward if the requisite languages (in this case English and Spanish) are already familiar."[1]: 157
Auxiliary languages in general, and regional ones such as Eurolengo in particular, have had little support from the international community;[2] Eurolengo has never had any speakers.[4][5]
Linguistic features
[edit]According to its author, there are only three pages of grammar rules.[6]
Alphabet
[edit]| Number | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper case | A | B | CH | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| Lower case | a | b | ch | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z |
| IPA phoneme | a | b | t͡ʃ | d | e | f | g | h | i | d͡ʒ | k | l | m | n | o | p | kw | r | s | t | u | v | w | ks | j | z |
The Eurolengo alphabet is almost the same as the English alphabet, except there is no C (its phonemes being taken over by either S or K),[1]: 156 but the Ch digraph is treated as a letter.
a=ah, b= bay, ch = chay, d=day, e = eh, f=eff, g=gay, h=ash, i = ee, j = jay, k = kay, l = ell, m = em, n = en, o = oh, p = pay, q=kw, r=air, s = ess, t=tay, u = oo, v = vee, w=wee, x = eks, y = eye, z = zed[7]
Verbs
[edit]According to its author all verbs are regular.[6]
Nouns
[edit]Nouns in Eurolengo have no gender, but a suffix can be added to derive specifically feminine words from their masculine counterparts, such as in the case of making kusin into kusina to indicate a male cousin or a female cousin.[8]
Example
[edit]Eurolengo isto tres fasil. Le lengo habo un diksionarie de venti mil paroles. It isto kompletik fonetik and le difisile sonds in le lengos de West Europe isto elimanado.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Large, Andrew, The Artificial Language Movement Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell in association with André Deutsch, 1985
- ^ a b Laycock, Donald (1990). AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF LANGUAGE: LANGUAGE ENGINEERING: SPECIAL LANGUAGES (PDF). Routledge. p. 466. ISBN 0-203-71185-8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ^ Jones, Leslie, Eurolengo: The Language for Europe Newcastle upon Tyne: Oriel Press, 1972
- ^ Scheidhauer, Christophe (2008). "Les langues de l'europe, un régime paradoxalement durable". Langage et Société. 125 (3): 125. doi:10.3917/ls.125.0125. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ^ К истории развития модельной лингвистики
- ^ a b Burkhardt; et al. (2004). Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft: Handbooks of linguistics and communication science. Walter de Gruyter, 2004. pp. 3619, 3632. ISBN 9783110179620. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
- ^ Jones, Leslie (1972). Eurolengo: The language for Europe: A practical manual for business and tourism. Oriel Press. ISBN 9780853621409.
- ^ Muchnik, Malka (Sep 22, 2014). The Gender Challenge of Hebrew. Brill. p. 9. ISBN 9789004282711. Retrieved 2 February 2015.