Glosa
Sign in to saveGlosa is a constructed international auxiliary language based on Interglossa (a previous draft of an auxiliary published in 1943). The first Glosa dictionary was published 1978. The name of the language comes from the Greek root glossa meaning tongue or language.
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Glosa is an artificial language created to help people from different countries communicate with each other, building on an earlier language design from 1943. Its first dictionary came out in 1978, and the name comes from a Greek word meaning "tongue" or "language."
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Key facts
- Language.name
- Glosa
- Language.nativename
- Glosa
- Language.image
- Glosa symbol - A.D. 2007.svg
- Language.imagescale
- 0.7
- Language.creator
- Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby, based on the Interglossa of Lancelot Hogben
- Language.created
- 1972–1992
- Language.setting
- international auxiliary language
- Language.fam2
- auxiliary language
- Language.posteriori
- Interglossa
- Language.iso3
- none
- Language.glotto
- none
- Language.ietf
- art-x-glosa
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31 sectionsContents
- History
- Unclear history
- Overview
- Spelling<!--orthography is more than just spelling--> and pronunciation
- Vowels
- Stress
- Word classes
- Primitives
- Substantives
- Phrases and clauses
- Parts of speech
- Personal pronouns
- Verbs
- Adjectives
- Conjunctions
- Question and answer words
- Demonstratives
- Prepositions
- Numbers
- Vocabulary
- Compound words
- Sample words and expressions
- Phrases and expressions
- Words
- Word derivation
- Texts
- Sample texts
- Language planning
- The Lord's Prayer
- References
- External links
Glosa is a constructed international auxiliary language based on Interglossa (a previous draft of an auxiliary published in 1943). The first Glosa dictionary was published 1978. The name of the language comes from the Greek root glossa meaning tongue or language.
Glosa is an isolating language, which means that words never change form, and Glosa spelling is also completely regular and phonetic. As an isolating language, there are no inflections, so that words always remain in their dictionary form, no matter what function they have in the sentence. Consequently, grammatical functions, when not clear from the context, are taken over by a small number of operator words and by the use of word order (syntax). Being an a posteriori language, Glosa takes most of its vocabulary from Greek and Latin roots, seen by the authors as international in a sense by their usage in science.
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Conlangs without ISO 639-3 codeConstructed languagesConstructed languages introduced in the 1970sInternational auxiliary languagesInternational auxiliary languages introduced in the 1970sIsolating languagesLanguage articles with IETF language tagLanguages with neither ISO nor Glottolog codeLanguages without Glottolog code