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Glosa is an international auxiliary language (auxlang), that was developed by Lancelot Hogben (as Interglossa, GB, 1943), Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby (GB, 1972-1992). Glosa is of the type that linguists call isolating, meaning that there are no inflections. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Glosa language is an international auxiliary language (auxlang), that was developed by Lancelot Hogben (as Interglossa, GB, 1943), Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby (GB, 1972-1992). ... Lancelot Thomas Hogben (9 December 1895- 22 August 1975) was a versatile English zoologist and geneticist. ... An international auxiliary language (sometimes abbreviated as IAL or auxlang) is a language used (or to be used in the future) for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common native language. ... A constructed or artificial language — known colloquially as a conlang — is a language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary have been devised by an individual or small group, instead of having naturally evolved as part of a culture. ... An international auxiliary language (sometimes abbreviated as IAL or auxlang) is a language used (or to be used in the future) for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common native language. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... An analytic language (or isolating language) is a language in which the vast majority of morphemes are free morphemes and considered to be full-fledged words. By contrast, in a synthetic language, a word is composed of agglutinated or fused morphemes that denote its syntactic meanings. ... A creole is a language descended from a pidgin that has become the native language of a group of people. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... An international auxiliary language (sometimes abbreviated as IAL or auxlang) is a language used (or to be used in the future) for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common native language. ... Lancelot Thomas Hogben (9 December 1895- 22 August 1975) was a versatile English zoologist and geneticist. ... In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification or marking of a word (or more precisely lexeme) to reflect grammatical (that is, relational) information, such as gender, tense, number or person. ...

Words remain always in their original form, no matter what function they actually have in the sentence. The same word can function as a verb, noun, adjective or preposition within reason. Grammatical functions are taken over by some operator words and the word order (syntax). Glosa is written with the Latin alphabet without special characters, there are no double vowels or consonants. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... In English, a noun or noun substantive is a lexical category which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase. ... An adjective is a part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun, usually by describing it or making its meaning more specific. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with adposition. ... Grammar is the study of rules governing the use of language. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ...

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Alphabet and phonology

For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ...

Sample Words

u feli = a cat, the cat

plu feli = cats

Ne pote detekti u defekti. = I can't find an error.

Ave! = Hello!

Place! = Please!

Pardo! = sorry!

1 mo

2 bi

3 tri

4 tet(ra)

5 pen(ta)

6 six

7 se(p)ti

8 ok(to)

9 nona

10 dek(a)

100 centi

1000 kilo

Example Text

Mi proto visita a Brussels e Europa Parlamenta (EP). Oligo membra de EP e pusi idio stude grega - Hanns-Seidel Stiftung pa organiza u debata ge-nima: U Komunika e Lingua Problema in Europa Komunita - a qo metri u ge-face lingua pote kontribu ad id solve. Mi pa gene invita te representa Glosa ad u-ci unio. Dr. Egon A. Klepsch, Presidenta de Europa Parlamenta pa apri un unio.

The Lord's Prayer in Glosa

Na parenta in Urani;

na volu; Tu nima gene revero.

Tu krati veni;

Tu tende gene akti

epi Geo homo in Urani Place;

don a na nu-di na di-pane;

e Tu pardo na plu mali akti.

Metro na pardo mu; qui akti mali de na.

E ne dirige na a plu moli ofere;

sed libe na ab mali.

Ka Tu tena u krati, u dina

e un eufamo pan tem.

External links

• Glosa, an International Auxiliary Language
• A Glosa Wiki