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What do you think of the Sona language (Glosa vs Sona)?

master1077 ("master1077" <master1077@...>) on January 18, 2009

Sona is a ConstructedLanguage created by KennethSearight (1883-1957). Sona = is mainly an a priori language. Searight, a polyglot and amateur linguist, = drew grammatical principles from a number of sources: Chinese, Japanese, Ar= abic, Pushtu (an Afghan language), Persian, English, French, Russian, Itali= an, and Indo-European roots.

Sona is an agglutinative language. It has a l= exicon of 375 radicals or ideograms (Searight’s term). Although Sona is wri= tten with Latin characters, Searight compared each radical to Chinese (or J= apanese) ideograms: indivisible elements of meaning.

Each radical is mono-= or di-syllabic, in the form CV (ex: to), VCV (ato), or CVn (ton). Only a, = i, and u are used before a consonant to make a radical, and no disyllabic r= adical is made with the consonants j, c, h, x, v, or f. An additional set o= f radicals, of the form V (i), Vn (on), and uV (uo), round out the lexicon.= Radicals are always written in lowercase, and punctuation is mostly avoide= d and unspecified, except for terminal period (“.”).

What do you think of= it? Have you ever heard of it before?

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What do you think of the Sona language (Glosa vs Sona)? - Committee on language planning, FIAS. Coordination: Vergara & Hardy, PhDs.