Mondilange

Overview

=Setting=

Mondilange is such a logicized world pidgin, made of words of languages of all linguistic groups.

Mondilange is as easily pronounceable as Tokipona.

Mondilange can be as logical as Lojban.

Mondilange has most of its words' functions identified by its ending, like Esperanto.

=Basic Grammar=

Vowels
a, e, i, o, u: basic vowels, pronounced approximately as in Spanish, Japanese, etc.

ai, ei, oi, au, ou, eu: each one pronounced as diphtong or hiatus, whatever you want;

iu, ui: idem;

ia, ie, io, ua, uo, ue: idem;

Consonants
l: as in long;

m: as in mother;

n: as in no;

t/d: as in table or dice; you can pronounce t as d and vice-versa, but preferably without the common aspiration of table;

p/b: as in pig or big; you can pronounce p as b and vice-versa, but preferably without the common aspiration of pig;

k/g: as in kart or girl; you can pronounce k as g and vice-versa, but preferably without the common aspiration of kart;

f/v: as in five or vanilla; you can pronounce f as v and vice-versa; those who speak Spanish (and others language which doesn't have sound /v/) should never pronounce v as b or w: you'd better use /f/;

x/j: as ch in chicago or s in measure; it is used to abbreviate or omit sounds; that is to say: it corresponds to the English apostrophe;

Note: These five pairs above are "unvoiced/voiced consonant pairs". Each two consonants of a pair have exactly the same articulation, with the only difference that the first one is pronounced without vibration of the vocal folds. To realize it, pronounce "tah" and "dah" with your finger in your throat and note that your throat vibrate before you pronounce the vowel only in "dah". In mondilange, you should preferably use unvoiced words (t, p, k, f, x) in the word begining and the voiced ones in the middle.

'ng, nd, mb: only these three consonantal encounters are possible;

nid, nig, mib, nud, nug, mub: these strings are not possible.

Words
Every word in mondilange ends only if its end have one of the four following forms (1), (2), (3) or (4), where "C" is for consonant, "V" is for the vowels a, e and o, "v" is for vowels i and u, and "X" is either for x or for j, with the only exception described in the sections Compound Words and How to put consonant or vowel encounters in the middle:

(1) CCV: memba, tongo, penimba, etc.; (2) vVCV: nuovo, lievo, tiedo; (3) vVX: miex, tuox, honioj, etc.; (4) CVu: holai, sai, kalei.

The consonant in (2) is never "n" nor "m", where they have to be substituted by "nd" and "mb", representing so case (1).

Compound Words
Compound words may be created linking two single words of types (1-4) by means of the sound "i" instead of the first word final vowel. For instance, suade means "water", while lande means "land". So, suadilande is a word created from them. Its meaning depends on context and should be defined by its creator, but it might mean "land of water". If you join the words sai and suade, you would have saiisuade. That's the only possible way of getting two equal vowels together, so you should pronounce each one separately: "sai-isuade".

=Dictionary=

Greeting
halohai: hi!

Hawaiian "aloha" (love, peace, etc.) - English "hello" - Spanish "hola"

tigabai: bye!

Yorùbá "ogabo" - Italian "ciao" - Portuguese "tchau"

Pronouns
mieme: I/me; mueme: we

Proto-indo-european "-mi", European "me", "mi", "mia", etc.

tiode: you/thou; tuode: you (all)/thee

Proto-indo-european "-te", Old Tupy "nde", English "thou", "thee", Thai "than" (polite) and "thoe" (informal), Spanish/Portuguese "tu" and "ti", Spanish "usted", Portuguese "você", etc.

liale: he/she/it; luale: them

Swahili "a-", "wa-", Spanish "él" (m) and "ella" (f), Portuguese "ele" (m) and "ela" (f), etc.

Verbs
haliova: to love

Hawaiian "aloha", English "love".

monka: to eat/to drink

Latin "manducare", Old French "mangier", Tokipona "moku", Esperanto "mangxi",

Nouns
tiehe: soil, ground, earth

Spanish "tierra".

suade: water

English "water", sound simbolism.

hiahe: air

Greek-European "aer", sound simbolism.

fuege: fire

Spanish "fuego", sound simbolism.

kuoke: rock

English, sound simbolism.

miade: wood

Spanish "madera", Portuguese "madeira".

lande: place, region, territory, earth

English.

lohiane: flower

Japanese "ohana", Latin "florum", Proto-indo-european "bhlo-".

=Example text=

mieme haliova tiodo: I love you;

miex haliova tiox: I love you;

miex monka suade: I drink water;