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Also known as Sambahsa-Mundialect

Sambahsa () or Sambahsa-Mundialect is an international auxiliary language (IAL) and worldlang devised by French linguist Olivier Simon. It is based on the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) and has a complex grammar. The language was first released on the Internet in July 2007; prior to that, the creator claims to have worked on it for eight years. According to a study addressing recent auxiliary languages, "Sambahsa has an extensive vocabulary and a large amount of learning and reference material".

Key facts

Language.name
Sambahsa
Language.nativename
Sambahsa-Mundialect
Language.image
Sambahsa flag.jpg
Language.creator
Olivier Simon
Language.created
2007
Language.iso3
none
Language.iso3comment
(sph code proposal was rejected in 2018)
Language.glotto
none
Language.ietf
art-x-sambahsa

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

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writing system
Latin script
Commons category
Sambahsa-Mundialect

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Encyclopedic overview

20 sections
Contents
  • Phonology
  • Consonants
  • Vowels
  • Stress
  • Grammar
  • Declensions
  • Conjugation
  • Vocabulary
  • Indo-European vocabulary
  • Further development from the Indo-European background
  • Words common to different language families
  • The [[Balkan sprachbund]]
  • Words from Arabic and Persian
  • Sinitic vocabulary
  • Sample phrases
  • A Longer Text
  • Literary works translated into Sambahsa
  • Movies with Sambahsa subtitles
  • References
  • External links

Sambahsa () or Sambahsa-Mundialect is an international auxiliary language (IAL) and worldlang devised by French linguist Olivier Simon. It is based on the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) and has a complex grammar. The language was first released on the Internet in July 2007; prior to that, the creator claims to have worked on it for eight years. According to a study addressing recent auxiliary languages, "Sambahsa has an extensive vocabulary and a large amount of learning and reference material".

The first part of the name of the language, , is composed of two words from the language itself, and , which mean 'same' and 'language', respectively. , on the other hand, is a fusion of 'worldwide' and 'dialect'.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sambahsa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.