Tutonish (also called Teutonish, Teutonik, Allteutonish, Altutonish, Alteutonik, Nu Teutonish, Neuteutonish) is a constructed language created by Elias Molee. He worked on it for several years before publishing it for the first time in 1902. He reformed it twice, first in 1911 and under the name Allteutonish and then in 1915 under the name Neuteutonish.
It was proposed as an "Anglo-German unifying language", for English and Germanic languages speaking areas, not as an international language in the full sense of the word. In creating it, Molee was clearly influenced by Giuseppe Peano but chose to create a language for Aryan people based on Germanic roots instead of Romance ones. However, he created an "inter-romance" version of his language to be used among Romance speaking people.
Louis Couturat and Léopold Leau wrote, in their Histoire de la langue universelle, not very enthusiastically about Tutonish:
Without criticizing the project of Monsieur Molee, he must permit as to note that he is inspired by motives absolutely opposite to human and civilization scopes of international language and to neutrality postulated in it.
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Tutonish had a simple phonetic pronunciation, a simple grammar based on the English grammar ("Fifteen rules") and a simple orthography, without majuscule.
The "Aryan" version vocabulary was built on roots taken from English, German and Scandinavian languages, while "Romance" version's vocabulary was mostly built on Latin and Romance languages.
The Aryan version of the Lord's Prayer:
vio fadr hu bi in himl; holirn be dauo nam; dauo reich kom; dauo vil be dun an erd, als it bi in himl; giv vi dis dag vio dagli bred; en fergiv vi vio shulds, als vi fergiv vio shulders; en lied vi nit inzu fersieku but frie vi fon ievl. let so bi.
The Romance version of the Lord's Prayer:
Nuo padr, ki bi in siel, sanktirn bi tuo nom, tuo regnu ven, tuo vol bi fasn sur ter kom in siel; don nu hoy nuo diali pan; et pardon nu nuo debits, kom nu pardon nuo debitors; et induk nu non in tentu ma delivr nu de mal.
Numbers from one to ten:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| een | tvo | tri | fir | fem | ses | syv | ot | ni | ti |
The origins of Tutonish - e urspringe ov teutonik:
elias molee, e ferfasr ov teutonik isn (war) gebärn 3a einam (januari) 1845 ov eltera, wer komen fon norvegia to 1 platz 30 kilometra fon e stad ov milwaukee ... ale nakbara havn file kinda, wer kanen nur spreka sine eigena teutonike moderspraka.
Elias Molee, the author of tutonish, was born on January 3, 1845 to parents who emigrated from Norway, in a place 30 kilometers from Milwaukee ... in the entire neighborhood there was a lot of other children who only spoke their own Germanic mother tongues.
Some sentences:
dau shal not baer falsh vitnesu gegn dauo nabor - Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
ein union spiek, makn up ov deuch, english, skandinavish and hollandi, for to agenfererein al tutonish folka into ein spiek mitin feivti jiera.