Re: [glosalist] What do you think of the Sona language (Glosa vs Sona)?

I have never heard about it before; it seems to be rather cute but still “empty”: no living author, no society etc. It’s fifty times more difficult than Esperanto, I assume. Its niche is around 5 - 10 persons, no more. Why me?:)

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, Arabic, Pushtu (an Afghan language), Persian, English, French, Russian, Italian, and Indo-European roots.

Sona is an agglutinative language. It has a lexicon of 375 radicals or ideograms (Searight’s term). Although Sona is written with Latin characters, Searight compared each radical to Chinese (or Japanese) 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 radical is made with the consonants j, c, h, x, v, or f. An additional set of 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 avoided and unspecified, except for terminal period (“.”).

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

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