19 February 2011

Latinate Auxiliary Languages

The other night, I was listening to music, and I suddenly realized: Latin really is the most attractive language for singing. I decided then that I wanted to learn a Latin-based auxiliary language. The question then is, which one? I've narrowed it down to either Latino Sine Flexione (LSF) or Lingua Franca Nova (LFN).  LSF is an older language, from the beginning of the 20th century and isn't used much anymore (although that's not important to me). It's not really well documented on the internet, either. LFN is a much more recent language, has many more users, and is very well documented.

In order to compare the two and get a better idea about them, I decided to try a little translation. I'm going to take the New National First Reader published in 1888 and translate it little by little into both languages.

Here's the first lesson in LSF:
Lectione Uno:
Illo es cane.
Short and simple. Here's the same lesson in LFN:
Leson Un
El es un can.
If I make mistakes, please feel free to correct them. I'll be back later with Lesson Two.

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