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Introduction
Dr. C. George Boeree
| Lingua
Franca
Nova was designed to be a
particularly simple, consistent, and easy to learn language for
international communications. It has a number of positive
qualities:
1. It has a limited
number of phonemes. It sounds
similar to Italian or
Spanish.
2. It is phonetically
spelled. No
child should have to spend years learning irregularities.
3. It has a completely
regular grammar. It is
approximately as restrained in this
regard as English or Indonesian.
4. It has a limited and
completely regular set of
productive affixes
for routine word derivation.
5. It has well-defined
rules for word order, in
keeping with many major languages.
6. It has a word base
strongly rooted in modern Romance
languages. These languages are themselves wide-spread and
influential, plus have
contributed the major part of English vocabulary.
7. It is designed to be naturally
accepting of Latin and
Greek technical neologisms, the de facto "world standard."
8. It is designed to seem relatively
"natural" to
those who are familiar with Romance languages, without being any
more difficult for others to learn.
I hope you like it.
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Lingua
Franca Nova es desiniada per es un lingua vera simple,
coerente, e
fasil aprendeda, per comunica internasional. El ave alga cualias bon:
1. El ave un numero limitada de
fonemes. El sona simila a
italian o espaniol.
2. El es scriveda como el sona.
No enfante debe pasa multe
anios studia nonregulas!
3. El ave un gramatica vera simple e
regula. El es min
complicada ce engles o indonesian.
4. El ave un grupo limitada e tota
regula de afises produinte
per crea parolas nova.
5. El ave regulas de la ordina de
parolas bon definada, como
multe linguas major.
6. El ave un lista de parolas fundada
en la linguas romanica
moderne. Esta linguas es comun e influente, e ia contribui la
parte
major de parolas engles.
7. El es desiniada per es asetante
natural de parolas tecnical
de latina e elenica, comun tra la mundo.
8. El es desiniada per aperi la plu
parte "natural" per los ci
comprende la linguas roman, ma no min
fasil per otras.
Nos espera ce tu va trova ce esta lingua es interesante! |
The
Basics
The
alphabet:
- a
b c d e f g h i j l m n o p r s t u v
x z
Pronunciation:
- car, boy, cat,
dog, cake, fun, go, ha, see,
azure, low, mama, new, coat, pen,
ray, see, tea, food, view,
ash, zoo
Word order:
- subject -- verb --
object
- la fema ama la
casa "the woman loves the house"
- particles -- noun --
adjectives
- la casa grande
"the big house"
- auxiliaries -- verb --
adverbs
- me debe pasea
atendente "I must walk carefully"
The grammar:
- -s (or -es
after consonants) forms the
plural of nouns
- omes e femas "men
and women"
- ia forms the
past tense of verbs
- tu ia labora
"you worked"
- va is the
future tense of verbs
- tu va labora
"you will work"
- add -nte to a
verb to make the active participle,
which acts as an adjective or noun
- donante
"giving" (adjective) or "giver"
- add -da to a
verb to make the passive participle,
which acts as an adjective or noun
- a verb can be used as a
noun just as it is
- nos dansa "we
dance" and la dansa "the
dance"
- an adjective can be
used as a noun the same way
- un om saja "a
wise man" and la sajas
"the wise (ones)"
- adverbs are identical
to adjectives
- un om felis
"a happy man" and el dansa felis
"he/she dances happily"
- intransitive verbs
become causative simply by adding an
object
- me senta "I sit"
> me senta la familia "I
seat the family"
Some useful prefixes:
- des- -- to
undo...
- infeta, to
infect > desinfeta, to
disinfect.
- re- -- to do
over or again.
- lua, to hire
> relua, to rehire.
- non- -- not, the
opposite of...
- felis, happy
> nonfelis, unhappy.
Some useful suffixes:
- -or -- a person
who, as part of his or her role or job, makes ... ,
does ... , or works with ...
- dirije, to
direct > dirijor, director.
- carne, meat >
carnor, butcher.
- -ador -- a
tool, instrument, device, or machine which makes ... ,
does ... , or works with ....
- lava, to wash
> lavador, washing
machine.
- umida, humid > umidador,
humidifier.
- -eria -- a
place of work, a shop, or office...
- carne, meat >
carneria, butcher shop.
- flor, flower > floreria, florist's
or flower shop.
- -able
-- capable or
worthy of being the object of an action:
- ama -- to love
> amable -- lovable,
lovable one.
- -eta --
miniature version, the young
of some creature, inner clothing...
- flora, flower
> floreta, florette.
- -on -- very
large version, outer
clothing...
- avia, bird >
avion, a giant bird, an
airplane.
- -r after a verb
makes the infinitive, which acts
as an
abstract noun
- donar "to
give," "giving" (noun)
- -ia after a
noun or adjective makes it an abstract
noun
- madria
"motherhood" or vania "vanity"
- -i
-- to become, or
to cause to become...
- verde, green > verdi, become
green, cause to become green
- -i
-- to use a
tool, instrument, or machine...
- telefon,
telephone > telefoni, call
on a telephone
- -i -- fractions,
e.g. un desi, one tenth.
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la
--
the
un -- a/an
me -- I, me, my
tu -- you (singular), your
el -- he, him, she, her, it
nos -- we, us, our
vos -- you, your (plural)
los -- they, them, their
se -- his, her, its, their, himself, herself,
itself, themselves
es -- be
ave -- have
dona -- give
vide -- see
dise -- say
vade -- go
esta -- this
acel -- that
tota -- all
cada -- each, every
cadun -- everyone
multe -- many
alga -- some
algun -- someone
poca -- few
nun -- no one
ce -- what/that
ci -- who/whom
cuando -- when
cuanto -- how much
do -- where
como -- how
per ce -- why
car -- because
donce -- therefore,
so that
vole -- want to
pote -- can
debe -- should
plu -- more
min -- less
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e -- and
o -- or
ma -- but
si -- yes, if
no -- no, not
a -- at
ante -- before, in front of
con -- with
contra -- opposite, against, in spite of
de -- from, out of,
since, of, concerning
en -- in, into
entre -- between, among, during
asta -- beside, up to, until
par -- by someone
per -- for, in order to
pos -- behind, after
sin -- without, except
sirca -- around, approximately
supra -- above, over, on
su -- below, under
tra -- through
ultra -- across,past, beyond
zero -- zero
un -- one
du -- two
tre -- three
cuatro -- four
sinco -- five
ses -- six
sete -- seven
oto -- eight
nove -- nine
des -- ten
sento -- one hundred
mil -- one thousand
alo -- hello
bon dia -- good day
bon note -- good night
como es tu? -- how are you
bon -- good
mal -- bad
grasias -- thanks
adio -- goodbye
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om
--
man
fema -- woman
fia -- girl
fio -- boy
ami -- friend
ama -- love
odi -- hate
oio -- eye
vide -- see
orea -- ear
oia -- hear
boca -- mouth
testa -- head
mano -- hand
pede -- foot
colpe -- hit, kick
pasea -- walk
core -- run
gato -- cat
can -- dog
cavalo -- horse
bove -- cow
avia -- bird
pex -- fish
flor -- flower
arbor -- tree
pais -- country
site -- city
vile -- village
casa -- house
ofisia -- office
otel -- hotel
scola -- school
restorante -- restaurant
auto -- car
tren -- train
avion -- airplane
gida -- drive
vola -- fly
sala -- room
seja -- chair
table -- table
telefon -- telephone
entra -- enter
sorti -- exit
senta -- sit
usa -- use
camisa -- shirt
pantalon -- pants
falda -- skirt
jaca -- coat
sapato -- shoe
xapo -- hat
porta -- wear
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libro
-- book
jornal -- magazine
pen -- pen
nota -- note
leje -- read
scrive -- write
tas -- cup
vitro -- glass
plato -- plate
force -- fork
cotel -- knife
culier -- spoon
carne -- meat
legum -- vegetable
mala -- apple
orania -- orange
pan -- bread
pasta -- noodles
ris -- rice
coce -- cook
come -- eat
acua -- water
te -- tea
cafe -- coffee
bir -- beer
vino -- wine
bevi -- drink
sol -- sun
luna -- moon
pluve -- rain
neva -- snow
tera -- earth
mar -- sea
color -- color
roja -- red
jala -- yellow
verde -- green
blu -- blue
blanca -- white
negra -- black
grande -- big
poca -- small
distante -- far
prosima -- near
bela -- beautiful
cara -- dear, expensive
barata -- cheap
costa -- cost
paia -- pay
compra -- buy
vende -- sell
abrida -- open
cluida --closed
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