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- | ===== What is Folksprak? ===== | ||
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- | Folksprak | + | ## What is Folksprak? |
- | ===== Why another damn Wiki? ===== | + | _Folksprak_ is the name of a project that aims to construct an inter-Germanic zonal auxlang, a language that can be easily understood by any speaker of a Germanic language (a group numbering over 465 million native speakers with an additional 300 to 900 million speaking English as a second language) without ever having learned it. You don't believe that's possible? Here's an example: if you are a (native) speaker of English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Afrikaans, Yiddish or some other Germanic language (see a [[wp> |
- | Good question! But the answer is quite simple: | + | |
+ | Folksprak is not meant to be designed by any one individual, but rather a collective work created by all interested parties; so you're welcome to participate. | ||
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+ | ## Why another damn Wiki? | ||
+ | |||
+ | Good question! But the answer is quite simple: | ||
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+ | ## Goals of the project | ||
+ | |||
+ | Folksprak shall be constructed as a language that is: | ||
+ | 1. intelligible with little or no training to Germanic speakers | ||
+ | 2. simple enough for ease of learning to write or speak about normal topics | ||
+ | 3. precise enough to deal with more complex topics (e.g. science, maybe philosophy) | ||
- | ===== Goals of the project ===== | ||
- | Folksprak shall be constructed as a language, which is | ||
- | - intelligible with little or no training for any germanic speakers | ||
- | - simple enough for ease of learning to write or speak about normal topics | ||
- | - precise enough to deal with more complex topics (e.g. science, maybe philosophy) | ||
where the importance descends from first to last | where the importance descends from first to last | ||
- | ===== Content ===== | + | ## Content |
+ | |||
+ | ### Linguistic subjects | ||
+ | |||
+ | - [[Phonology and orthography]] | ||
+ | - Grammar | ||
+ | - [[Declension]] | ||
+ | - [[Conjugation]] | ||
+ | - [[Attributes]] | ||
+ | - [[Word order]] | ||
+ | - [[POS marking]] | ||
+ | - Vocabulary | ||
+ | - [[Guidelines for word formation]] | ||
+ | - [[Word functions]] | ||
+ | - [[Pronouns]] | ||
+ | - [[Adpositions]] | ||
+ | - [[Conjunctions]] | ||
+ | - [[Numbers]] | ||
+ | - [[Colours]] | ||
+ | - [[Wordlist]] | ||
+ | - [[Habitual Expressions]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ### Other content | ||
+ | |||
+ | - [[words|Concept Collection]] | ||
+ | - [[References]] | ||
+ | - [[Sample texts]] | ||
+ | - [[Protocols]] | ||
+ | - [[Notepad]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ## Other Resources | ||
+ | |||
+ | ### Current | ||
+ | |||
+ | - [IRC-Channel on freenode.net](irc:// | ||
+ | - [Mailing-list](https:// | ||
+ | - [facebook-group](http:// | ||
+ | - [other content on folksprak.org](http:// | ||
- | === Linguistic subjects === | + | ### Old or out of date |
- | * [[Phonology and orthography]] | + | |
- | * Grammar | + | |
- | * [[Declension]] | + | |
- | * [[Conjugation]] | + | |
- | * [[Attributes]] | + | |
- | * [[Word order]] | + | |
- | * [[POS marking]] | + | |
- | * Vocabulary | + | |
- | * [[Guidelines for word formation]] | + | |
- | * [[Word functions]] | + | |
- | * [[Pronouns]] | + | |
- | * [[Adpositions]] | + | |
- | * [[Conjunctions]] | + | |
- | * [[Numbers]] | + | |
- | * [[Colours]] | + | |
- | * [[Wordlist]] | + | |
- | === Other content === | + | - [Yahoo-group](https:// |
- | | + | - [geocities.com](http:// |
- | | + | - [furorteutonicus.eu](http:// |
+ | - [en.wikibooks.org](http:// | ||
+ | - [Omniglot](http:// | ||
+ | - [FrathWiki](http:// | ||
- | ===== Other Resources ===== | ||
- | ==== Current ==== | + | ### Other projects |
- | * [[irc:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * ([[http:// | + | |
- | ==== Old or out of date ==== | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
+ | - Interlingua | ||
+ | - [Official webpage](http:// | ||
+ | - Slovianski / Interslavic | ||
+ | - [Information and learning material](http:// | ||
+ | - [Wiki](http:// | ||
+ | - [ZetaBoards](http:// | ||
+ | - [Lexicon](http:// | ||
+ | - Anglish | ||
+ | - [Wiki](http:// | ||