On Mon, 26 May 2008, Klaus Dieckmann wrote:
> Salute,
>
> the Lingua Eurana project ist based on the old Latin. It has an easier
> grammar than classical Latin, but with the background of this language,
it
> has a tradition which lacks to other auxialary languages.
I looked at the introduction quickly, but even without studying it in
depth (apart from the misspellings of "always" and "diphthong"), I see
some problems.
Most adult English speakers have a terrible difficulty pronouncing /y/
(German 'ü', French 'u') correctly.
Most English readers will not know how to pronounce the German
spellings 'ä' and 'ö' (very few English speakers know German), so these
vowels will have to be explained, not just given a German spelling. (I
am not certain whether the German vowel 'ö' even exists in all dialects
of English, as I myself am not sure just how to pronounce 'ö'.)
To the best of my knowledge, the vowels in English 'mat' (at least in
General American English, which has the most speakers of any English
dialect) and German 'ä' are not the same, even though the introduction
refers to both for the spelling 'ae'.
I suggest that for a constructed international auxiliary language the
vowel scheme be kept relatively simple. Vowels are tricky for most
adult learners of another language.
I find it odd that the language has an indefinite article but no
definite article. Usually (as in classical Greek, Ido, and Esperanto),
it is the other way around.
--
Paul Bartlett
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