Communicationssprache

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Communicationssprache is a very early example of a proposed international auxiliary language, published in 1839 in Wiesbaden by Joseph Schipfer (1761-1843). It makes heavy use of respelled French vocabulary, which Schipfer considered to be nearly universal among the educated classes of the world of his time.

Some of its characteristics:

• No articles.
• Invariable adjectives.
• Comparatives in -ior and -iost.
• Adverbs formed by adding -ly to adjectives.
• Possessive pronouns in -a.
• Infinitives in -er.
• Nouns were declined.
• Capitalization of nouns, as in German.

The numbers from one to ten were: una, dua, tria, quatra, quina, sesta, setta, otta, nona, dia.

[edit] Example

The Pater Noster

No Pera, wia ete Cielu ta Noma sanctiferii; ta Royoma Ais arrivii; ta volonta färerii com Cielu änsi Terru. Donne Ais noa Päno quotidien; pardonne Ais noa offansos, com pardonnas Aos offanding; non permette que succombias tantationi; mä delivre Aos malu.

[edit] External links

• Norbert Michel, "Joseph Schipfer - Träumer oder Humanist", in: Beiträge zur Wallufer Ortsgeschichte, Heft 1, 1993.