Atlas language

So... another post in the Atlas blog! They have been promised for a long time, but finally, here they are: countries in Atlas! You will find a list below, containing 47 country names. Yes, not all of them are included, but they will be coming sooner than later. As you will be able to see, countries have an -e ending (abstract), in opposition to cities, that have a -u ending (Barsalonu, Novi-Iorku, Moskbu, Tokiu...). This is based on the idea that cities can actually be seen, but countries? can you really see the borders when flying on a plane? As you would expect, country names can take also an -i ending (adjectives): Zi esset al-itsa Barati - He/she was the Indian person. Some countries are directly transcribed from its original language, or one of its original languages (in case that more than one language is spoken in the country): - Arhentine - from Argentina. - Vranse - from France. - Nihone - from Nihon , Japan. - Hervatse - Hrvatska - Croatia For coun...

So here we are again. This has been hot topic in various forums, and had a couple of questions about it via e-mail too, so let's do a post about it. Why not? First of all, what is aspect? Basically it indicates how an event spands over time. I am eating - I ate - I have eaten - I eat - ... There are many different kinds of aspect: - imperfective - perfective - pefect - aorist - prospective - ... Many languages have aspect as one of their features. Some do it via interfixes or suffixes (Spanish for instance), via particles (Chinese), or adverbs (Indonesian). Out of the aspects listed above (and many more), different languages use different aspects, and even if they use the same one, they can have different views on it. So take for instance the perfect aspect in Spanish and in English: - I have finished - Yo he acabado/acabé Some dialects in Spanish use the equivalent to the English ones, while others would use the perfective ("acabé") for the same situation. ...

As I said in my last blog update, a few important changes were coming in order to make Atlas simpler than it is. In this post, I am basically going to describe the changes. The new grammar will be in the grammar page, with the word "NEW" next to it. The old grammar will still be there for you to read or compare to the new one. However, because of the complexities of the changes, the NEW grammar is NOT marked for changes (as the old version is for smaller updates). So first of all, why do I change things? Atlas is very young, 2 months today! so feedback from people is really valuable and we still have time to change what needs to be changed. This is the time to do it. I apologize for the inconvenience that this will cause to some of you that had already maybe studied or review part of the grammar, but I am sure the changes are worth it and they will make your life so much easier. Are there any further changes expected? I have now reviewed all suggestions and criticisms, ...

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who visits this website and shows interest in Atlas. I can see many people coming back regularly, even people sharing in forums etc. So a BIG thank you to everyone and keep doing that if you like, it is great for this project. Atlas is a month old now, and I can say the response has been very positive. So again, thank to everyone. As any other project, Atlas has experimented some changes from its initial version. The latest ones have been introduced very shortly. I do not anticipate to see any major changes from now on. The grammar is now fairly solid and even more simplified. So, what are the latest changes? - grammar has been updated with some more information: hours, use of reciprocals... - even more examples in the grammar, now with answers! so you can practice even more. - BIG changes to prepositions! number cut to more than half. Some prepositions have now multiple uses, where its final meaning will depend on context. - chang...

After a few days, new post on Atlas! Before getting to the main point today, a few highlights: Grammar updated with a new explanation on prepositions, more examples and some other explanations updated. Dictionary updated, headers added. News page coming soon with the most important news as they come. Grammar will be reupdated soon with a few more explanations and more practice. And now referring to the title of the post, the first long(ish) translation has been completed! It is Lamb to the Slaughter, of Roald Dahl. The translation can be found here: Dake de qung-swivhewana Of course you can find the original searching online. Interesting how the word "lamb" is created here! young-sheep, basically. Let me point out as well that the title is not a direct translation from the original, and it means "hit of lamb", basically. But I do not want to speak about word formation, you will find more information on that in this blog obviously. I want to sp...

Where do roots come from? Atlas takes its roots from 16 languages in the World. As featured in this website, the 10 most spoken languages in the World where chosen first (English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Indonesian-Malayan, French, Arabic, Portuguese, Hindi, Bengali). Apart from these, the 2 most spoken languages in the each continent, provided that they were spoken by at least 1% of the World population. Here we can find Hausa and Swahili for Africa, German and Italian for Europe, and Japanese and the Iranian languages for Asia. Oh wait! Are Iranian Languages a language? not really, I admit. The Iranian langauges are a group of languages lead by Kurdish, Pashto and Farsi/Persian, believed to be spoken by around 200 milion people in the purple area that you can see in the map. The most spoken single language in Asia apart from the ones already included would have been Punjabi. So why not Punjabi? Basically because India and its surroundings have already a good representation i...

Some people have been wondering whether a language with only 500ish roots (525 at the moment to be precise) can actually be efficient. The secret, as some of you might know, is that Atlas combines these 525 roots (adding as well prepositions and numbers sometimes) in order to create all words. Some people have been wondering whether this system can actually work (and how it works), and here is a good example. I have chosen animals, for instance, in order to show how easy and intuitive word formation is, and how the 500ish roots system works. The "animal" root for animal is hen . There are a few henan (animals) that have their own words, so they form roots by themselves: kan (dog), nok (cat), tug (giraffe), hat (elephant), pex (fish), zuz (bird), sep (snake), hax (insect) and only a few others. Based on some of these roots, we create all animals. The most used ones are hewan , pex , hax , zunz . Even the root mer (sea) can be used in order to be referred to animals (a...

Hello everyone again! - hia dukan dahi! So only two days from Atlas publication, and the feedback I am getting is already very positive. So thank you everyone for your support. Any questions, suggestions... or things you do not like, do not understand... you can always write me: atlasbahase@gmail.com Even if you have new words, do not hesitate to send them to me, I will include them in the dictionary. So... How do we form new words? 1) see whether the word you are using is already in the dictionary (CTRL+B/F). Remember, only one form of the word is normally present, so if you cannot find live, try to look for life. If you cannot find free, try for freedom. If you cannot find drove, try drive, etc. 2) If it is not, you will need to add it, so try to think of its base root . The base root is the root containing the majority of the meaning, and it will go to the right. For instance, if we are thinking of a hospital and it was not in the dictionary, we would start by thin...

Hi everyone! So this is the first post of this new auxlang called Atlas. Atlas is a new auxiliary language intended to be used as an international language. Its vocabulary is taken following these two rules: 10 most spoken languages (L1+L2) in the World: English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Indonesian-Malayan, Portuguese and Arabic. Apart from these ones, the 2 most spoken languages in each continent, provided that they are spoken by at least 1% of the population: German and Italian for Europe, Iranian* and Japanese for Asia, Swahili and Hausa for Africa. Languages from other continents did not meet the 1% (basically because the top 10 languages are widely spoken). *Iranian languages is a family of languaes widely spoken in Western Asia, including Kurdish, Farsi and Pashto. Chosen as a group because it is believed to have around 200 milion speakers, and because it represents another part of Asia. Other languages have more speakers than Kur...