28.1176, FYI: Constructed Language - Elefen

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Subject: 28.1176, FYI: Constructed Language - Elefen

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Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 10:46:34
From: Armando Alvarez [yue at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Constructed Language - Elefen

 
Elefen (or Lingua Franca Nova) is an auxiliary constructed language originally
created by C. George Boeree ofShippensburg University, Pennsylvania Its
vocabulary is based on the Romance languages French, Italian,Portuguese,
Spanish, and Catalan. The grammar is highly reduced and similar to the Romance
creoles. The language has phonemic spelling, using 22 letters of either the
Latin or Cyrillic scripts.

http://elefen.org/
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics





 



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