- Title
- Names of the seasons in artificial auxiliary languages with particular reference to a priori languages
- Creator
- Libert, Alan Reed
- Relation
- Istanbul International Modern Scientific Research Congress. Istanbul International Modern Scientific Research Congress Full Texts Book (Istanbul, Turkey 04-05 June, 2021) p. 169-173
- Relation
- https://en.istanbulkongresi.org/kongre-kitaplari
- Publisher
- İKSAD Global Publishing
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Many artificial languages, i.e. languages such as Esperanto which have been deliberately created, have words for the four seasons, but these words have been constructed in various ways. This paper is a survey of such words, focussing on artificial auxiliary languages, which were designed as a way for people speaking different languages to communicate with each other. Of special interest are these terms in a priori artificial languages, which are attempts to create a languages without taking any (or many) items from natural languages. This group of (generally quite unsuccessful) languages includes aUI, Ro, Sona, and Suma, and many of them follow a principle that words with related meanings are similar in sound. The result is vocabularies which are generally quite different from those of natural languages. For example in Ro, the words for ‘spring’, ‘summer’, ‘autumn’, and ‘winter’ are tamab, tamac, tamad, and tamaf respectively. In marked contrast to them are the names of seasons in a posteriori languages, which have been based on one or more natural languages, e.g. the Eurolengo words frutemp, sumer, fal, and winter, at least some of which can be understood by someone speaking one or more major Western European languages. In such cases an interesting question will be which natural language words were chosen as the basis for the terms in artificial languages? Mixed artificial languages, that is, languages with a large number of both a priori and a posteriori components, will also be discussed. Looking at this small group of words might give a glimpse of the nature of the vocabulary of many artificial languages.
- Subject
- artificial languages; constructed languages; calendar; priori; posteriori
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1450049
- Identifier
- uon:43811
- Identifier
- ISBN:9786057067135
- Language
- eng
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