λЭINГ𐊮Ը DЭI ARD, or with the Latin alphabet: leingwa de ard, or in English: The Language of Earth, is a proposed constructed international auxiliary language.
Purpose: The purpose of this language is to actually succeed where other international languages have failed: to make communication simple between speakers of different languages across the whole earth, hence the name "leingwa dei ard". This language seeks to provide a simple bridge when needed.
Access: Access to the rules and word lists will always be free on GitHub. Any are free to teach leingwa dei ard to others in any form. For those who wish to have physical copies, I will put out an inexpensive book to purchase the contents of what is on GitHub.
Description: This language compares aspects of language across the world, with a special emphasis on volume of speakers. An example of this is using a modified version of the Latin alphabet as most of the world uses A: alphabets instead of other letter systems and B: modified Latin ones. That said, romance, germanic, and slavic languages have numerous grammatical complexities that make it difficult for learners coming from arabic, chinese, korean, japanese, and so on. Grammar is heavily influenced by Chinese languages, while the root word vocabulary is largely indo-european based. The order is largely how you would expect in Spanish.
But it doesn't just seek to just use what is most commonly used, it seeks to balance common use, ease of communication (written and spoken), and ease of learning.
λЭINГ𐊮Ը DЭI ARD rules:
- All countries are pronounced how they are in their native country, but spelled using this alphabet.
- All root words must be the most common across the world, accounting for volume of people and use across the world.
- Sentences must be in SVO format, as this the most commonly spoken sentence structure order.
- The language is to be kept simple. No gender, articles, tenses, diacritics, case/capitilization, synonyms. Various derogatory terms are not to be used.
- Consonants(except for fricative) have 1 sound, vowels have a slight range of sound, and vowels may sound shorter when paired with another vowel to become a dipthong.
- Pronouns will be genderless and simple, with a simple suffix added on pronouns if plural. Plural is otherwise specified with adjective modifiers.
- Metric system supported, as well as a counting system similar to esperanto. Common Arabic numeral system as the globally used system will be used.
- Spaces must be used between each word. no hyphens are to be used to join one word to another.
λЭINГ𐊮Ը DЭI ARD alphabet
A: IPA (a)
Ը: IPA (ə)
Э: IPA (ɛ)
I: IPA (i)
O: IPA (o)
Უ: IPA (u)
Б: IPA (b)
D: IPA(d)
F: IPA(f)
Г: IPA(g)
Ⴠ: IPA(h)
K: IPA(k)
λ: IPA (l)
M: IPA (m)
N: IPA(n)
П: IPA(p)
R: IPA(r)
S: IPA(s)
ષ: IPA(ʃ)
T: IPA(t)
𐊮: IPA(w)
ય: IPA(j)
Ƶ: IPA(z)
Ж: IPA(ʒ)
Dipthongs Example
ᲣI GUI, phooey
ƐI make, take
AI tie, guy
OI coin
AᲣ cow, loud
AЭ ant, Andy
AԸ caught, plot
ja can be made using DЖ cha can be made using Tષ
λEiNГ𐊮A DEI ARD does its best to remove letters that may cause those who suffer from dylexia the complicated letters that appear as reflections, sticking to capital letters so as to remember less characters as a whole, and removes any problematic characters that exist but have different sounds in 2 widely spoken languages, making this language much more accessible as there is a less likely change you do not have to retrain your mind on letters that you already have knowledge of.
The breakdown below is roughly where the sound and letter combination of this alphabet pull from, and you'll see it is quite even among Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets. This Alphabetet system is a unifed hybrid Indo-European Alphabet and would be considered a child system of Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Indo-Aryan, and then some. Every effort was made to attemt to include more sinitic, semetic, and Indo-Aryan based alphabets, but most characts would either be too much like a number, or the character went above or below the standard letter space.
Cyrillic - 13/24
Latin - 13/24
Greek - 10/24
Indo-Aryan- 3/24
Runic/Other - 3/24
Georgian - 2/24
Armenian - 1/24
As a comparison, please see how many letters English shares with the 3 related alphabets english
latin - 26
greek - 9
cyrillic - 9
Keep in mind that these letters are temporary. If after identifying the vocabulary for several thousand words and certain letters have not been used, they will be removed.