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| LingulaOfficial Newbie Italy Joined 3220 days ago 1 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English | Message 1 of 4 03 February 2016 at 5:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello, I am the founder of Lingula(a constructed language that aims to be intelligible
to all Romance speakers. Introduction: I am originally from Sardinia and I have studied the Romance languages for many years. I started with Latin and found a great fondness for it and taught for some years. I recently discovered the constructed language Interlingua which aims to be comprehensible to all the Romance languages. However, I have found many design flaws with it, namely a bias toward Spanish(hence a disadvantage toward Italian, Romanian, French, and Portuguese speakers), arbitrary Latin words(for example sometimes it will use a Latin word where a Romance word can be used with less confusion), and the possibility of confusion with words that can easily be changed. I have spent the last week surveying the Reddit community from France, Argentina, Italy, Romania, et cetera in order to evaluate the effectiveness of my new language. I have surveyed over 450 people. The results(while certainly not conclusive) show Lingula is about 40-50% more comprehensible than Interlingua. There are limitations to this type of survey, which are listed in the document I provide below. Sample of the language(from our subreddit): Isto subreddito es pro practicar e transmiter informationes concernendo Lingula, bella lingua auxiliare internationale que es facile apprender e comprensible a prima vista. Spero que apprendereis cum me! Per favore dice me de Lingula! As you can see the language is built from the Romance languages to be easy to learn and understand. Why not Esperanto? Esperanto has a different goal than Lingula. Lingula seeks to comprehensible and easier to learn than any natural language. Esperanto seeks to be very easy to learn and unify the world. I'd like to upfront and honest about this since I have took Esperanto and I think its an interesting concept. So first here are some things Esperanto has over us: Its more internationally neutral Its slightly to learn for non-Romance speakers. Advantages of Lingula over Esperanto Immediately practical. Since Esperanto is internationally neutral, it is not intuitively understandable to anyone. While with Lingula, you could use it to speak with people immediately. Easier to learn for Romance language speakers. While both Esperanto and Lingula are fairly easy to learn, all of the vocabulary in Lingula is derived immediately from Latin and the Romance languages. Irregularities. Every language has some irregularities including Esperanto. I have sought to eliminate irregularity in Lingula while still maintain comprehensibility. The only time I did not remove an irregularity was if all of the Romance languages shared it. So there is still very few. A mixture of Synthetic and Analytic. One thing I never understood was that no grammar= better. A lot of languages try to have very minimal grammar but this doesn't necessarily make things easier to learn. Chinese is one of the most analytic languages in the world(that is lacking grammar), but it still is very difficult to learn. Esperanto went with the nominative-accusative distinction. However, Lingula focuses on analytic word order(like English and the Romance languages), slightly more complex verb morphology(like English and the Romance languages), with only accusative/nominative distinction in a couple of pronouns(like He/him, tu/te in the respective languages). Lingula is far closer to how these languages operate grammatically, while still maintaining an easy to learn, easy to use system. Core Grammar: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xafkWhskniU_8HNEIejhzBlQ dFummgbfnBUoWTsu7y8/edit?pref=2&pli=1 Lingula per metodo directo: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cOW2HHKHMg1zFQYcJEvFHGWF 8cTHfmqGbyYpOh_av48/edit Memrise Course: http://www.memrise.com/course/970911/lingula-clave-pro-appre nder- entre-linguas/ subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lingula/ Edited by LingulaOfficial on 03 February 2016 at 5:03am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| SallImSayin Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5768 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Swahili, Lingala, Igbo | Message 2 of 4 13 February 2016 at 3:47am | IP Logged | ||
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At first I thought that said 'Lingala', a language I speak. I imagine the search engines
would probably correct to that, as well. I speak Esperanto, also. I can say I did understand the sample text you posted, so that's pretty cool! *the link doesn't work for me (grammar) Edited by SallImSayin on 13 February 2016 at 3:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| catullus_roar Quadrilingual Octoglot Groupie Australia Joined 4570 days ago 89 posts - 184 votes  Speaks: Malay, Hokkien*, English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese*, French, German, Spanish Studies: Italian, Latin, Armenian, Afrikaans, Russian | Message 3 of 4 22 February 2016 at 12:18pm | IP Logged | ||
Hi LingulaOfficial, is there any way I can get in contact with you? As you can see, I am a devoted language learner and I would love to discuss lingula with you and give it a try. I am a regular in the latin sub on reddit (/u/llosa) and I have also done real-life work with some rare languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Speakeasy Senior Member Canada Joined 4054 days ago 507 posts - 1098 votes Studies: German | Message 4 of 4 22 February 2016 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello LingulaOfficial,
This is a very interesting post and I suggest that you register on the A Language Learner's Forum and post it there, as well. Owing to the persistent technical and administrative problems associated with this forum, the "A Language Learner's Forum" was launched in mid-2015 as a "replacement" website. Most of the "more active" members have registered on the new website and that is where most of the discussions now take place. See you there! Kind regards, Speakeasy 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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