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{{Infobox language | {{Infobox language | ||
|name=Sambahsa-Mundialect | |name=Sambahsa-Mundialect | ||
|familycolor=Indo-European | |||
|creator=Dr. Olivier Simon | |creator=Dr. Olivier Simon | ||
|created=2007 | |created=2007 | ||
|iso3=none | |iso3=none | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Sambahsa''' or '''Sambahsa-Mundialect''' is an [[international auxiliary language]] (IAL) devised by [[French people|French]] linguist Dr. Olivier Simon.<ref name="OS">{{cite web |url= http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/w/page/10183084/FrontPage|title=The Official Website of Sambahsa |author=Dr. Olivier Simon |year=2010| accessdate= 2011-02-18}}</ref> | '''Sambahsa''' or '''Sambahsa-Mundialect''' is an [[:Category:Auxlangs|international auxiliary language]] (IAL) devised by [[w:French people|French]] linguist Dr. Olivier Simon.<ref name="OS">{{cite web |url= http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/w/page/10183084/FrontPage|title=The Official Website of Sambahsa |author=Dr. Olivier Simon |year=2010| accessdate= 2011-02-18}}</ref> | ||
Among [[ | Among [[w:International auxiliary languages|IALs]] it is categorized as a [[wikt:worldlang|worldlang]]. It is based on the [[w:Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European language]] (PIE) and has a relatively complex grammar.<ref name="Mithridates">{{cite web |url=http://www.pagef30.com/2009/05/why-you-should-keep-your-eye-on.html|title=Why You Should Keep an Eye on Sambahsa |author=Mithridates |date =2009-05-14 |accessdate =2011-02-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/w/page/10183084/FrontPage|title=sambahsa / FrontPage|website=sambahsa.pbworks.com|access-date=2019-10-31}}</ref> | ||
The language was first released on the Internet in July 2007; prior to that, the creator claims to have worked on it for eight years. According to one of the rare academic studies addressing recent auxiliary languages, "Sambahsa has an extensive vocabulary and a large amount of learning and reference material".<ref>"The Representation of Korean and Other Altaic Languages in Artificial International Auxiliary Languages" in ''Journal of Universal Language'', March 2012, p.153, by Alan Reed Libert.</ref> | The language was first released on the Internet in July 2007; prior to that, the creator claims to have worked on it for eight years. According to one of the rare academic studies addressing recent auxiliary languages, "Sambahsa has an extensive vocabulary and a large amount of learning and reference material".<ref>"The Representation of Korean and Other Altaic Languages in Artificial International Auxiliary Languages" in ''Journal of Universal Language'', March 2012, p.153, by Alan Reed Libert.</ref> | ||
The first part of the name of the language, ''Sambahsa'', is composed of two words from the language itself, ''sam'' and ''bahsa'', which mean 'same' and 'language' respectively. Mundialect, on the other hand, is a [[Blend word|fusion]] of ''mundial'' 'worldwide' and ''dialect'' 'dialect'. | The first part of the name of the language, ''Sambahsa'', is composed of two words from the language itself, ''sam'' and ''bahsa'', which mean 'same' and 'language' respectively. Mundialect, on the other hand, is a [[w:Blend word|fusion]] of ''mundial'' 'worldwide' and ''dialect'' 'dialect'. | ||
Sambahsa tries to preserve the original spellings of words as much as possible and this makes its orthography complex, though still kept regular.<ref>A full analysis of Sambahsa (written in Esperanto) has been made by S.Auclair in ''La Riverego'' n°104, pp. 11-16, http://www.esperanto.qc.ca/files/riverego/Riverego-104.pdf</ref> There are four [[grammatical case]] | Sambahsa tries to preserve the original spellings of words as much as possible and this makes its orthography complex, though still kept regular.<ref>A full analysis of Sambahsa (written in Esperanto) has been made by S.Auclair in ''La Riverego'' n°104, pp. 11-16, http://www.esperanto.qc.ca/files/riverego/Riverego-104.pdf</ref> There are four [[w:grammatical case|grammatical cases]]: [[w:nominative case|nominative]], [[w:accusative case|accusative]], [[w:dative case|dative]] and [[w:genitive case|genitive]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/w/page/27871608/Foreword-to-the-Sambahsa-Grammar-in-English|title=Foreword to the Sambahsa Grammar in English|author=Dave MacLeod|year=2010|accessdate=2011-02-02}}</ref> | ||
Some language enthusiasts have said Sambahsa would have resulted had a kingdom been formed several millennia ago with PIE as its official tongue and remained intact until the present times.<ref name="Mithridates" /> | |||
Sambahsa, though based on PIE, borrows a good proportion of its vocabulary from languages such as [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]], [[Swahili language|Swahili]] and [[Turkish language|Turkish]], which belong to various other [[ | Sambahsa, though based on PIE, borrows a good proportion of its vocabulary from languages such as [[w:Arabic language|Arabic]], [[w:Chinese language|Chinese]], [[w:Indonesian language|Indonesian]], [[w:Swahili language|Swahili]] and [[w:Turkish language|Turkish]], which belong to various other [[:Category:Language families|language families]].<ref name="OS" /> | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||