Fasile

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Fasile
Created by:	Balduino Egon Breitenbach	1999
Setting and usage:	international auxiliary language
Total speakers:	—
Category (purpose):	constructed language auxiliary language Fasile
Category (sources):	Latin, Greek, Russian, English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish; Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, Lojban and Vorlin
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`art`
ISO 639-3:	—
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key.

Fasile is an under construction language from Brazil. It was created by Balduino Egon Breitenbach in 1999, and is said to have speakers in Brazil, Canada, France, Portugal, Spain and Japan^{[citation needed]}.

Fasile's stock is drawn from Latin, Greek, Russian, English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish, as well as the auxiliary languages Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, Lojban, and Vorlin. Its creators claim it can be learned in a very small fraction of the time of a natural language.

[edit] Grammar

The language uses 24 letters of the English alphabet (minus C and Q). W and Y are used to form the diphthongs. It is wholly phonetic (one symbol representing one sound). The stress is generally on the penultimate syllable, or the final syllable if the word is the direct object.

Nouns end in o if masculine, a if feminine, u if epicene, and e if inanimate. Plurals are formed by adding a -y (which changes the sound to a diphthong). There is no definite article for nouns (which is implied), but there is an indefinite article, un.

The pronouns are ju (first-person), vu (second-person), and lu (third-person), which inflect for gender and number as with normal nouns. Pronouns also have a dative case (with the suffix -li) and a genitive case (with the suffix -den).

Adjectives end in i, and there is no adjectival agreement. Adverbs end in el, unless it is part of a question, in which case the bare root is used alone. (beli, "beautiful"; belel, "beautifully"; kin bel?, "beautifully?")

Verbs take a root and add endings for present tense (-az), past tense (-iz), future (-oz), conditional (-uz), and imperative (-ez). This is the same as Esperanto's verb conjugation (replacing the s with z), save for Ido's imperative tense. Pronouns also take the verb endings, and agree with the verbs. Verbs inflect only to show tense, not according to number or person as in the Romance languages.

[edit] Sample

The following are the first nine verses of Chapter 11 of the biblical book of Genesis, which is traditionally used to compare languages.

1. Kay ol rejire abazi soli linge kay simi vordey.

2. Kay inan omiru, ivazi tun Eyste, findiz plati reje in Ximar, kay genan vitiniz tonin.

3. Kay luy inte-paliz "Juy genez! Juy igez brikey kay kukez ley il pire." Luy usaziz brikey il roke kay beyte tedon gluigaje.

4. Kay luy paliz: "Juy genez! Juy konstroz por juy un urbe kay un tope di tore til sele! Kay juy abigez fami title por juy, golel juy na disigidez tran oli sore di rejire!"

5. Kay Deu ivaziz subin por vidar urbe kay tore konstradi dun omiru.

6. Kay posan Deu paliz "Ximel luy une-omiraz kay une-lingaz, kay sineh luy gene-igaz! Sinan, ebijoz oleh luy viloz igar!

7. Juy ivez! Juy ivez subin kay juy konfigoz luydi linge por eju na prenoz altru!"

8. Kordel Deu dise-irigiz luy tran ol sore di rejire, kay law grade luy dalkonstriz urbe.

9. Sinal le titladaz Babel, al Deu inin konfigiz linge di ol rejire, kay din Deu disigiz omiru tran ol sore di rejire.