janPiteJansekeJun 4, 2019

Translated by: Anna Duda
Taken from: www.focus.pl

MAKE YOUR OWN LANGUAGE

The Biblical parable of the Tower of Babel doesn’t seem to go out of date - at least when it comes to the amount of generated languages.

Constructed languages are springing up. Can they break the hegemony of English?

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The birth of Esperanto by no means chilled the enthusiasm of the creators of new languages. In 1930s, a British linguist Charles Kay Ogden, wanting to improve international trade, came up with the idea of Basic English - a language based on abbreviations and patchworks of syllables - which corresponds to the level of a six year old. Simple to use is based on loose terms and words from different tongues European language Europanto. In turn, the most concise language in the world was created in 1978 by a Canadian translator Sonja Elen Kisa - Toki Pona consists of only 123 words.
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#TokiPona #mention #sona

NOTA BENE: error on the date of the TP creation, 1978 is the birthyear of Sonja, 2001 that of TP ....

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Swiss psychologist Claude Piron claimed that the dominance of English is fiction. He argued that most of the people for whom it’s not a native language, use so-called Pidgin English which consists of no more than 1500 words. This is drop in the ocean of 615 thousand words contained in the Oxford Dictionary. This means that the international English is not richer than the constructed languages​​, aspiring to the role of the universal means of communication.
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#PidginEnglish #ClaudePiron #level1500 #selo1500 #nimi_pasila #Inli_pasila

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Browsing this page, you will find here some exceptionally interesting tidbits of news concerning not only English but also other languages, linguistic puzzles, intriguing articles and, in general,...

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