Eurolengo

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Eurolengo is a constructed language invented by Leslie Jones with the intention of it becoming a common international language. The vocabulary consists of words borrowed from English and Spanish and made to conform to a consistent phonetic and orthographic system.

The Eurolengo alphabet is almost the same as the English alphabet, except there is no C, but the Ch digraph is treated as a letter.

Like most constructed languages, Eurolengo aims to eliminate certain ambiguous or difficult traits many natural languages have. Eurolengo does not do this with the thoroughness of Esperanto or Lojban, but allows natural variation, as with Interlingua or Occidental. To give two examples: silent E's are allowed at the end of words; the words for the numbers eleven and twelve are not formed in the same way as those for 13 to 19.