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</div>From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <<a href="mailto:roerd096@PLANET.NL">roerd096@PLANET.NL</a>><br>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2011.07.08 (01) [EN]<br>
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Btw I wrote about Middelsprake some time ago, which is part of/ancestor of Folkspraak now.<br>
One of the other varieties was Volkspraak, also known as SimPlat, a simplified form of Low Saxon meant as a lingua franca:<br>
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<a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/folkspraak/message/13237" target="_blank">http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/folkspraak/message/13237</a><br>
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Ingmar<br>
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Hi James, Paul e.a.<br>
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:<br>
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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.<br>
For Engelisch sprekers MS is okso mennig lichter to lerne dan, saege, Duetisch, Nederlandisch oller Swedisch.<br>
MS have een regelmatig spelling, aleen regelmatig wirk-worde, aleen een
enig kyn on een enig fal, regelmatig meertal on kenne nik een "umlaut".<br>
Du kan finde uut meer af de spraak's grammatika, wordschat, tekste, luud-dokuments etc. in de "Files" afdeling.<br>
Middelspraak is een af de variants af Folkspraak<br>
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Middelsprake/" target="_blank">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Middelsprake/</a><br>
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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.<br>
It has a regular orthography, only regular verbs, just one gender and one grammatical case, regular plural and no umlaut.<br>
You can find out more about the language's grammar, vocabulary, texts, sound files etc. in the Files section, above left.<br>
Middelsprake is one of the varieties of Folkspraak<br>
<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Middelsprake/" target="_blank">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Middelsprake/</a><br>
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Ingmar Roerdinkholder<br>
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