Lingua Franca Nova

1. It has a limited number of phonemes. It sounds similar to Italian or Spanish. 

2. It is phonetically spelled. No child should have to spend years learning irregularities. 

3. It has a completely regular grammar. It is approximately as restrained in this regard as English or Indonesian. 

4. It has a limited and completely regular set of productive affixes for routine word derivation. 

5. It has well-defined rules for word order, in keeping with many major languages. 

6. It has a word base strongly rooted in modern Romance languages.  These languages are themselves wide-spread and influential, plus have contributed the major part of English vocabulary. 

7. It is designed to be naturally accepting of Latin and Greek technical neologisms, the de facto "world standard." 

8. It is designed to seem relatively "natural" to those who are familiar with Romance languages, without being any more difficult for others to learn. 

I hope you like it. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact me at  cgboeree edu.

1.  El ave un numero limitada de fonemes.  El sona simila a italian o espaniol.

2.  El es scriveda como el sona. No enfante deve pasa multe anios studia nonregulas!

3.  El ave un gramatica vera simple e regula.  El es min complicada en esta caso como engles o indonesian. 

4. El ave un grupo limitada e tota regula de afises produinte per crea parolas nova. 

5.  El ave regulas de la ordina de parolas bon definada, como multe linguas major. 

6.  El ave un lista de parolas vera fundada en la linguas roman moderne.  Esta linguas es comun e influensente, e ia contribui la parte major de parolas engles. 

7.  El es desiniada es asetante natural de parolas tecnical de latina e elenica, la "norma de mundo" per fato. 

8.  El es desiniada aperi plu parte "natural" per los ci comprende la linguas roman, ma no min fasil per otras. 

• a b c d e f g i j l m n o p r s t u v x z

• car, boy, cat, dog, cake, fun, go, see, azure, low, mama, new, coat, pen, ray, see, tea, food, view, ash, zoo

• subject -- verb -- object
• la fema ama la casa "the woman loves the house"
• particles -- noun -- adjectives
• la casa grande "the big house"
• auxiliaries -- verb -- adverbs
• me debe pasea atendente "I must walk carefully"

• -s (or -es after consonants) forms the plural of nouns
• omes e femas "men and women"
• ia forms the past tense of verbs
• tu ia labora "you worked"
• va is the future tense of verbs
• tu va labora "you will work"

• add -nte to a verb to make the active participle, which acts as an adjective or noun
• donante "giving" (adjective) or "giver"
• add -da to a verb to make the passive participle, which acts as an adjective or noun
• donada "given" or "gift"

• a verb can be used as a noun just as it is
• nos dansa "we dance" and la dansa "the dance"
• an adjective can be used as a noun the same way
• un om saja "a wise man" and la sajas "the wise (ones)"
• adverbs are identical to adjectives
• un om felis "a happy man" and el dansa felis "he/she dances happily"

• intransitive verbs become causative simply by adding an object
• me senta "I sit" > me senta la familia "I seat the family"
• one can make clear the meaning with words like fa (to make) and se (oneself)
• el senta se "he/she seats himself," el fa senta la familia "he/she seats the family"
  

• des- -- to undo...
• infeta, to infect > desinfeta, to disinfect.
• re- -- to do over or again.
• lua, to hire > relua, to rehire.
• non- -- not, the opposite of...
• felis, happy > nonfelis, unhappy.

• -or -- a person who, as part of his or her role or job, makes ... , does ... , or works with ...
• dirije, to direct > dirijor, director.
• carne, meat > carnor, butcher.
• -ador -- a tool, instrument, device, or machine which makes ... , does ... , or works with ....
• lava, to wash > lavador, washing machine.
• umida, humid > umidador, humidifier.
  
• -eria -- a place of work, a shop, or office... 
• carne, meat > carneria, butcher shop.
• flor, flower > floreria, florist's or flower shop.
  

• -able -- capable or worthy of being the object of an action:
• ama -- to love > amable -- lovable, lovable one.
  

• -eta -- miniature version, the young of some creature, inner clothing...
  
• flora, flower > floreta, florette.
• -on -- very large version, outer clothing... 
• avia, bird > avion, a giant bird, an airplane.

• -i -- fractions, e.g. un desi, one tenth.

• -r after a verb makes the infinitive, which acts as an abstract noun
• donar "to give," "giving" (noun)
  
• -ia after a noun or adjective makes it an abstract noun
• madria "motherhood" or vania "vanity"

• -i -- to become, or to cause to become...
• verde, green > verdi, become green, cause to become green
• -a -- to use a tool, instrument, or machine...
• telefon, telephone > telefona, call on a telephone
  

me -- I, me, my
tu -- you (singular), your
el -- he, him, his, she, her, it, its

nos -- we, us, our
vos -- you, your (plural)
los --  they, them, their

se -- himself, herself, itself, themselves, his own, her own, its own, their own

es -- be
ave -- have
dona -- give
vide -- see
dise -- say
vade -- go

esta -- this
acel -- that

tota -- all
multe -- many
alga -- some
poca -- few
no -- none

ce -- what/that
ci -- who/whom
cuando -- when
cuanto -- how much
do -- where
como -- how
per ce -- why

vole -- want to
pote -- can
debe -- should

plu -- more
min -- less

e -- and
o -- or
ma -- but
si -- yes, if
no -- no, not

a -- at
ante -- before, in front of
con -- with
contra -- opposite, against, in spite of de -- from, out of, since, of, concerning
en -- in, into
entre -- between, among, during
asta -- beside, up to, until
par -- by someone
per -- for, in order to
pos -- behind, after
sin -- without, except
sirca -- around, approximately
supra -- above, over, on
su -- below, under
tra -- across, through, past, beyond

zero -- zero
un -- one
du -- two
tre -- three
cuatro -- four
sinco -- five
ses -- six
sete -- seven
oto -- eight
nove -- nine
des -- ten

sento -- one hundred
mil -- one thousand

alo -- hello
bon dia -- good day
bon note -- good night
como es tu? -- how are you
bon -- good
mal -- bad
grasias -- thanks
adio -- goodbye