Mondilange

Overview

=Setting=

=History=

In the year of Our Lord 2012, many disasters happened around the globe, and mystical people acquired great respect because they had long advised about the Mayan prophecies. On the other hand, since Barack Obama's election, African culture became very popular, and advances in medicine practically cured AIDS in 2020. By that year, Africa was in its best development level and popularity. Esperanto movement spread over the whole Europe, so that Esperanto disputed influence with English as an international language.

However, not everything was fine... USA, Europe and the Islamic League disputed influence in Africa, and a West-African Federation, mainly leadered by Angola, Nigeria and Congo, was emerging as a new nuclear power. USA, England and Spain leadered a league to avoid West-African nuclear power, while Germany, Poland, France and Italy signed a treat with the West-African Federation which permitted European Union to interfere in African countries in Civil War, such as Kenya and Ethiopia. Esperantists were creating an artificial island called "Nova Atlanto" in the Mediterranean Sea, in order to be world's capital city.

Then, by 2045, all the countries were preparing armies for a World War III, when a mixed-race Brazilian, Leo Lucas, declared himself a medium and told everybody that he went to Spiritual World and talked with Karl Marx, Adam Smith and L. L. Zamenhoff, creator of Esperanto. Zamenhoff told him that Esperanto was not suitable as a international language anymore, and that he must look for the Scottish linguist Justin B. Rye and listen his criticisms to Esperanto, but Lucas should not tell Justin B. Rye he would present another conlang because he would be against it as well. He should also learn Lojban and Tokipona, and a language from each linguistic family. So, he would be able to create a new world language. Karl Marx and Adam Smith traced a polytical and economic plan to avoid World War III.

Leo Lucas asked them: - How will they believe me? - If God is with us, who will be against us? Then Leo Lucas waked up and saw three boxes beside his bed. After searching for archeologists, he discovered that they were no less than a lost treasure of Jerusalem, a lost rock of Islamism and a lost Azteca Sculpture robed by pirates. Leo Lucas became very famous, so that the leaders of all countries accept to talk to him and listen to his message.

And this is how MONDILANGE was born...

=Basic Grammar=

Sounds

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

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;

ai, ei, oi, au, ou, eu: pronounced as diphtongs or hiats, whatever you want;

iu, ui: idem;

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

'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 in one of the four followin forms, where "C" is for consonant, "V" is for vowel and "X" is for letter x or j):

=Dictionary=

halohai: hi! gibai: nice to meet you! hogabai: bye!

mieme: I/me; tiode: you/thou; liale: he/she/it;

luova: to love monka: to eat/to drink

tiehe: earth suade: water hiahe: air fuege: fire kuoke: rock meade: wood

=Example text=

mieme luova tiodo: I love you; miex luova tiox: I love you; miex monka suade: I drink water;