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| ===== What is Folksprak? ===== | ===== What is Folksprak? ===== | ||
| - | //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>List_of_Germanic_languages|complete list]]) there's a great chance that you will know what a sentence like //„Ik hav skrivt en buk“// is supposed to mean. | + | //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>List_of_Germanic_languages|complete list]]) there's a great chance that you will know what a sentence like //„Ek hav skrivt en buk“// is supposed to mean. |
| 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. | 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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| === Other content === | === Other content === | ||
| + | * [[words|Concept Collection]] | ||
| * [[References]] | * [[References]] | ||
| * [[Sample texts]] | * [[Sample texts]] | ||
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