Eurolengo is a constructed language invented by Leslie Jones in 1972.Large, Andrew, The Artificial Language Movement Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell in association with André Deutsch, 1985 It was constructed to be a common European language and "a practical tool for business and tourism."
The vocabulary consists of words borrowed from English and SpanishJones, Leslie, Eurolengo: The Language for Europe Newcastle upon Tyne: Oriel Press, 1972 and made to conform to a consistent phonetic and orthographic system. Critics find a Spanglish flavor to the language, and that "reading is only straightforward if the requisite languages (in this case English and Spanish) are already familiar."
Auxiliary languages in general, and regional ones such as Eurolengo in particular, have had little support from the international community; Eurolengo has never had any speakers.К истории развития модельной лингвистики
Linguistic features According to its author, there are only three pages of grammar rules.
Alphabet + Neo alphabet (+ digraphs) Number 1234568891011121314151617181920212223242526Upper caseABCHDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZLower caseabchdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz IPA phonemekwks
The Eurolengo alphabet is almost the same as the English alphabet, except there is no C (its phonemes being taken over by either S or K), but the Ch digraph is treated as a letter.
a=ah, b= bay, ch = chay, d=day, e = eh, f=eff, g=gay, h=ash, i = ee, j = jay, k = kay, l = ell, m = em, n = en, o = oh, p = pay, q=kw, r=air, s = ess, t=tay, u = oo, v = vee, w=wee, x = eks, y = eye, z = zed
Verbs According to its author all verbs are regular.
Nouns Nouns in Eurolengo have no gender, but a suffix can be added to derive specifically feminine words from their masculine counterparts, such as in the case of making kusin into kusina to indicate a male cousin or a female cousin.
Example
References
External links Sample Conjugations of Eurolengo Verbs