Lingua sistemfrater

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Lingua sistemfrater
Created by:	Pham Xuan Thai	1957
Setting and usage:	International auxiliary language
Total speakers:	–
Category (purpose):	constructed language International auxiliary language Lingua sistemfrater
Category (sources):	A posteriori language with a predominantly Romance word stock and an Asian-based grammar
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`art`
ISO 639-3:	–
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Frater (lingua sistemfrater), an a posteriori international auxiliary language, published in Frater (Lingua sistemfrater). The simplest International Language Ever Constructed, in 1957 by the Vietnamese linguist Pham Xuan Thai. The grammar can be compared to Indonesian language grammar.

Pham Xuan Thai gave it more than 6,000 words for the usage of a very extensive vocabulary.

[edit] Alphabet

This language uses 18 letters:
"a, e, i, o, u" "b, d, f, g, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t"

- help for best pronunciation:
"j" is pronounced as"z", "e" as "ei", and "o" as "ou". All the other letters have their normal pronunciation according to the International Phonetic Alphabet.

[edit] References

Bray, Mary Connell. "Introduction" in Alexander Gode et al. Interlingua-English: a dictionary of the international language. Storm Publishers, New York, 1951.
Pham Xuan Thai. "Frater (Lingua sistemfrater). The simplest International Language Ever Constructed". TU-HAI Publishing-House, Saigon (Republic of Vietnam), 1957.