Atlas language

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...