Atlas language

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...

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...