ProjectManifesto

From Ial

I would like to put together a lot of different linguists and language enthusiasts from all over the world with the purpose of designing an optimal international auxiliary language using a wiki to edit the specification and to discuss each point, alike Wikipedia.

The aim of this project is to devise a language which is easy to learn and use, regardless of the speaker's nationality. And it should be so especially for poor children, who do not have enough time and resources to learn English.

A language completely neutral (no one should be favoured) and devoid of all complications and embellishments found in natural languages. Not beautiful, not for poetry but just a practical tool for learning, science, history, geography or even other natural languages.

Once the specification will be enough mature and a broad vocabulary established, we will begin to produce free online and offline software to quickly teach this language to children. This software has to be localized for each other natural language of the world.

Afterwards, books will be written and translated into this very easy "interlingua" and web pages written into it will begin to appear.

But the language standard will never be frozen. It will always remain open and subject to evolution and improvements from the community, each modification being based on a democratic poll system.

So this lingua franca won't be made by a small group or a standard committee, but collaboratively, by the Internet community, just like Wikipedia and Linux have been made. This will guarantee automatically its acceptance and neutrality. A language made by the internet for the internet and that will change over time, just like natural languages do, but without ever dispensing its main objective: simplicity.

Our starting point will be various existent research result and documents like (but not limited to) this:

Proposed Guidelines for the Design of an Optimal International Auxiliary Language , by Richard K. Harrison

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