AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE (1928)

by Otto Jespersen PhD., Litt.D., LL.D. (1860-1943)

Contents:

PART I: GENERAL

Need for an Interlanguage

Ignorance of Foreign Languages

An Existing Language?

Objections to Constructed Languages

Differences in an Interlanguage

Not So Good As Existing Languages

Future Differentiations

Number of Proposed Languages

The Delegation. Ido

Latino sine Flexione

PART II: NOVIAL

Novial (includes list of abbreviations used in Part II)
Sounds and Spelling

Number
Sex
Neuter
Adjectives
Case
Pronouns
Comparison
Verbs

Infinitive and Imperative

Present and Past

Future and Conditional

Perfect and Pluperfect

Indirect Speech

Prefixes
Substantival Suffixes
Verbal Suffixes
Adjectival Suffixes
General Suffixes
Numeral Suffixes
Adverbial Suffixes
General Remarks on Word-Formation
Particles
Prepositions
Vocabulary
Alphabetical List of Hard Words
Specimens

The original conversion of this page to digital form was made by James Chandler, who has given me permission to copy all Novial-related pages from his site. Except for correcting typographical errors and the necessary changes involved in migrating from his site (mainly URLs in links), this page is a direct copy from his site.

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of dead links and any other problems.

Last modified by B. R. Gilson (brg1942@gmail.com) May 31, 2009.

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