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Constructed Language - Lingua Franca Nova | ||
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| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5352 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 1 of 3 14 April 2010 at 1:13am | IP Logged | ||
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Franca_Nova
Has anyone here taken a look at the constructed language known as Lingua Franca Nova? I have not seriously learned it, though I have browsed through the wikipedia page many times, and have also browsed through the grammar pages on occasion. The reason I ask is because the creator of this language used to be a professor at the university at which I attend. We exchanged emails a few times, and I wanted to speak with him in person, but his office hours always conflicted with my classes, and then last year the creator of Lingua Franca Nova retired so I never got to meet him. Would be interesting to see if anyone else has dabbled with this at all. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5339 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 2 of 3 14 April 2010 at 1:28am | IP Logged | ||
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I considered it. I think Esperanto would be easier. Also more speakers.
Cool to know about him being a professor at your university though :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mithridates Newbie Korea, South pagef30.com Joined 5676 days ago 21 posts - 36 votes | Message 3 of 3 14 April 2010 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
I've been a supporter of LFN since late 2005, so yes I know quite a bit about the language. It's one of the ones I most highly recommend. The others are Occidental and Ido. I live in Korea and LFN is the kind of language that would be easy to use with a Korean spouse here for example if you wanted to use an IAL in your family. Occidental is really easy for those with a Western European background to understand at first sight, but a Korean or other will have less luck reading it properly the first time. What's interesting about LFN is how effectively it's been hammered out over the past few years, since we began a wiki for it and started writing tons of content. Simon Davies: http://lfn.wikia.com/wiki/User:Simon_Davies who is also an Esperantist, has done a terrific job in going over LFN with a fine-toothed comb to make sure that it isn't just easy to learn but also precise as well. As a creole-like IAL, LFN has a very strict word order that aids in telling whether something you're reading is a noun or a verb, or an adjective or an adverb, because they are otherwise used interchangeably. Articles also aid in this too. For example: Me ia studia la linguas latina e elinica --> I studied the languages Latin and Greek but En la universia es la studia de latina e elenica --> In the university is the study of Latin and Greek (studia is the same in both) and Me desira partisipa ativa en se desinia --> I want to participate actively in its design but Un desira ativa per partisipa en se desinia --> An active desire to participate in its design So there you can tell through word order and article whether ativa is an adjective or an adverb. So yes, highly recommended. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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