Glosa (planned language)

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Glosa
Project author Lancelot Hogben , Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby
Year of publication 1981
Linguistic
classification
particularities Modified version of Interglossa .
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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ISO 639 -2

art (constructed languages)

Glosa is a modified version of the planned language project Interglossa , which was developed in 1943 by Lancelot Hogben , Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby .

structure

Glosa should be an isolating language without inflections . Grammatical functions are taken over by operator words and syntax . The same word in Glosa can act as a verb, noun, adjective, or preposition. The words come from Latin and Greek . The pronunciation is regular and based on the Italian. The Latin alphabet is used for writing, without special characters, vowels or consonants.

vocabulary

Glosa has a basic vocabulary of 1000 words ( Glosa 1000 , Centra Glosa ) and an extended vocabulary of around 6000 words ( Glosa 6000 , Mega Glosa ).

Examples

  • u feli = a cat, the cat
  • plu feli = cats
  • poli feli = many cats
  • medika-pe = doctor
  • medika-fe = doctor
  • medika-an = male doctor
  • Fe ki ad urba. = She is going to town.
  • Fe nu ki ad urba. = She is going to town now.
  • Fe fu ki ad urba. = She will go to town.
  • Fe pa ki ad urba. = She went to town.
  • Do debi auxi fe! = You should help her!
  • Fe pote gresi. = She can go.
  • Qe fe pote gresi? = Can she go?
  • An pa pote dromo e salta. = He could run and jump.
  • Qe mu pote salta? = Can you jump?
  • U makina funktio bene. = The machine works well.
  • Ne pote detekti u defekti. = Can not find the error.
  • Ave! = Hello!
  • Place! = Please!
  • Gratia de tu grama. = Thank you for your letter.
  • Vale! = Farewell!
  • Pardo! = Sorry!
  • 1 mo
  • 2 bi
  • 3 tri
  • 4 tet (ra)
  • 5 pen (ta)
  • 6 six
  • 7 se (p) ti
  • 8 ok (to)
  • 9 nona
  • 10 dec (a)
  • 100 centi
  • 1000 kilos

Others

The name of the German dance music project Fragma is derived from the planned language Glosa and means “subdivision” or “fence”.

literature

  • Detlev Blanke: International Planned Languages: An Introduction . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1985 (= Akademie-Verlag collection).
  • Věra Barandovská-Frank : Enkonduka lernolibro de interlingvistiko . 1st edition. Ed. Universităţii din Sibiu, Sibiu - Hermannstadt (Romania) 1995

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