LL-L "Language varieties" 2011.07.27 (01) [EN]

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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <roerd096 at PLANET.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2011.07.08 (01) [EN]

Btw I wrote about Middelsprake some time ago, which is part of/ancestor of
Folkspraak now.
One of the other varieties was Volkspraak, also known as SimPlat, a
simplified form of Low Saxon meant as a lingua franca:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/folkspraak/message/13237

Ingmar

Hi James, Paul e.a.
As you see I'm a maybe still member of this list ;-) but not an active one
anymore for ages. By coincidence I just took a look of triplll a few days
ago, and now I read that Middelsprake was recently mentioned here. For the
people that don't have a clue about MS, read the description here below:

Middelspraak (kort: MS) is een kunstlig maked spraak dat is basered up de
wichtigest levend Germanisch sprake. De grammatika is simpel on regelmatig,
wat make dat licht to lerne. Man kan forgelike Middelspraak mid Interlingua,
de kunstlig spraak basered up Latin/Romanisch, in dat for de meest sprekers
af een oller meer Germanisch sprake, mennig af een MS tekst schal wese
forstaan direkt, uter enig to lerne fyrst. De levend Germanisch sprake, uter
Engelisch, have rund 170 miljon sprekers.
For Engelisch sprekers MS is okso mennig lichter to lerne dan, saege,
Duetisch, Nederlandisch oller Swedisch.
MS have een regelmatig spelling, aleen regelmatig wirk-worde, aleen een enig
kyn on een enig fal, regelmatig meertal on kenne nik een "umlaut".
Du kan finde uut meer af de spraak's grammatika, wordschat, tekste,
luud-dokuments etc. in de "Files" afdeling.
Middelspraak is een af de variants af Folkspraak
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Middelsprake/

Middelsprake (abbreviation MS, "Middelspraak" in the language itself) is a
constructed language based on the main living Germanic languages. Its
grammar is simple and regular which makes it easy to learn. Middelsprake can
be compared with Interlingua, the Latin/Romance conlang in that for most
speakers of one or several Germanic languages, much of a MS text will be
understood readily without any previous learning. The modern Germanic
languages, apart from English, have about 170 million speakers. For English
speakers MS is also much easier to learn than say German, Dutch or Swedish.
It has a regular orthography, only regular verbs, just one gender and one
grammatical case, regular plural and no umlaut.
You can find out more about the language's grammar, vocabulary, texts, sound
files etc. in the Files section, above left.
Middelsprake is one of the varieties of Folkspraak
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Middelsprake/

Ingmar Roerdinkholder


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