Glosa
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| Glosa | ||
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| Created by: | Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby, based on the Interglossa of Lancelot Hogben | 1972–1992 |
| Setting and usage: | international auxiliary language | |
| Total speakers: | ~10 | |
| Category (purpose): | constructed language auxiliary language Glosa |
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| Category (sources): | vocabulary from Latin and Greek and grammatical influences from isolating languages and creole languages | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | art | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | either: igs — Interglossa gls — Glosa |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Glosa is an international auxiliary language (auxlang), that was developed by Lancelot Hogben (as Interglossa, GB, 1943), Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby (GB, 1972-1992). Glosa is of the type that linguists call isolating, meaning that there are no inflections.
Words remain always in their original form, no matter what function they actually have in the sentence. The same word can function as a verb, noun, adjective or preposition within reason. Grammatical functions are taken over by some operator words and the word order (syntax). Glosa is written with the Latin alphabet without special characters, there are no double vowels or consonants.
The Glosa words are taken from Latin and Greek, and are related to many languages including east-Asiatic languages like Chinese, Creole languages from Africa, pidgin languages and to an extent English.
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[edit] Alphabet and phonology
| Consonants | ||
|---|---|---|
| IPA | spelling | |
| /p/ | p | |
| /b/ | b | |
| /t/ | t | |
| /d/ | d | |
| /g/ | g | |
| /k/ | k | |
| /ks/ | x | |
| /kw/ | q | |
| /m/ | m | |
| /n/ | n | |
| /r/ | r | |
| /f/ | f | |
| /v/ | v | |
| /s/ | s | |
| /z/ | z | |
| /ʃ/ | sc | |
| /tʃ/ | c | |
| /h/ | h | |
| /j/ | j | |
| /l/ | l | |
| /w/ | w | |
| Vowels | ||
| IPA | spelling | |
| /a/ | a | |
| /i/ | i | |
| /u/ | u | |
| /e/ | e | |
| /ɔ/ | o | |
[edit] Sample Words
- u feli = a cat, the cat
- plu feli = cats
- Ne pote detekti u defekti. = I can't find an error.
- Ave! = Hello!
- Place! = Please!
- Pardo! = sorry!
- 1 mo
- 2 bi
- 3 tri
- 4 tet(ra)
- 5 pen(ta)
- 6 six
- 7 se(p)ti
- 8 ok(to)
- 9 nona
- 10 dek(a)
- 100 centi
- 1000 kilo
[edit] Example Text
Mi proto visita a Brussels e Europa Parlamenta (EP). Oligo membra de EP e pusi idio stude grega - Hanns-Seidel Stiftung pa organiza u debata ge-nima: U Komunika e Lingua Problema in Europa Komunita - a qo metri u ge-face lingua pote kontribu ad id solve. Mi pa gene invita te representa Glosa ad u-ci unio. Dr. Egon A. Klepsch, Presidenta de Europa Parlamenta pa apri un unio.
[edit] The Lord's Prayer in Glosa
- Na parenta in Urani;
- na volu; Tu nima gene revero.
- Tu krati veni;
- Tu tende gene akti
- epi Geo homo in Urani Place;
- don a na nu-di na di-pane;
- e Tu pardo na plu mali akti.
- Metro na pardo mu; qui akti mali de na.
- E ne dirige na a plu moli ofere;
- sed libe na ab mali.
- Ka Tu tena u krati, u dina
- e un eufamo pan tem.
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