Latino sine Flexione
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| Latino sine flexione | ||
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| Created by: | Giuseppe Peano | 1903 |
| Setting and usage: | international auxiliary language | |
| Total speakers: | virtually extinct | |
| Category (purpose): | constructed language auxiliary language Latino sine flexione |
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| Category (sources): | Completely based on Latin, but influenced by ideas in other auxiliary languages | |
| 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. | ||
Latino sine flexione (Latin without inflections) is an auxiliary language invented by the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano in 1903. It is a simplified version of Latin, and retains its vocabulary. The justification for Latino sine flexione was given by Peano's article, "De Latino sine Flexione, Lingua Auxiliare Internationale". The article argued that auxiliary languages are unnecessary, since Latin is already established as the world's international language. The article was written in classical Latin, but it gradually dropped its inflections until there were none. It has been called "interlingua" but should not be confused with the later, better known Interlingua developed by the International Auxiliary Language Association.
Though Peano removed the inflections of Latin from nouns and adjectives, he did not entirely remove grammatical gender, permitting the option of a feminine ending for occupations. The gender of animals is immutable. All forms of nouns end with a vowel and are taken from the ablative case, but as this was not listed in most Latin dictionaries, he gave the rule for its derivation from the genitive case. Though he tries to remove plurals, when they are needed an "s" is added. Verbs have few inflections of conjugation; tenses and moods are instead indicated by verb adjuncts. The result is a change to a positional language.
[edit] External links
- Europeano.org
- Europeano: Latin without Inflexions - Information about Latino sine flexione and some writings of Giuseppe Peano
- Latino Sine Flexione
- Europeano
- Latino sine flexione is a dead link; use the Internet Archive link instead - site in latino sine flexione; Peano's original writings on this language, blog in latino sine flexione, etc.
