Olili-lan

General information
Hello and welcome to the world of oli-lan! olili-lan is intended to be a small, minimalistic language, easy to learn and master. It was NOT created to be a complex, specific language. It has a reduced dictionary on purpose, allowing it to be easy to learn. It is abstract on purpose.

olili-lan is mainly influenced by toki pona and ygyde, with some extra bits of English and Portuguese. It is also a philosophical language, trying to relate to the Sapir-Whorf hipotesys. Resuming, this is a language created as a hobby, in order to try to balance simplicity and maximum communication potential, and being possible to learn it in 2 to 4 weeks.

Phonology
Olililan consists in the Latin alphabet, albeit using only 12 letters. These letters are described in the following paragraphs.

Consonants
All the consonants are pronounced like any person who speaks a European language would expect them to be, so if you are familiar with English this should be pretty straightforward for you.

Vowels
olilan’s vowels are quite unlike English’s. Whereas vowels in English are quite arbitrary and can be pronounced tons of diﬀerent ways depending on the word, olilan’s vowels are all regular and never change pronunciation. If you’re familiar with Portuguese or Spanish, or certain other languages, especially romance ones, then your work is already cut out for you. The vowels are the same as they are in these languages.