Bahasan
From Langmaker
| Conlang | Bahasan |
| Author | Leo John Moser |
| Year Began | 1988 |
| Language Type | miscellaneous |
| Lexicon Size | N/A |
| Etymologies | No |
| Grammar | No |
| Sample Texts | Yes |
| Primer | No |
Bahasan was written by Leo John Moser. It has been used for a translation of the Babel Text.
Language sources
Sources: All the languages of the world, to the extent that documentation was available. Besides the author's consultation of hundreds of dictionaries (and later, websites), potential contributions and comments were proffered by members of conlang mailing lists.
Design principles
The vocabulary was not designed to be readily readable to those of any linguistic culture. It was, however, designed to discover as many familiar roots as possible that would provide "memory hooks" for as many persons as possible -- worldwide. The grammar was trivial, only sufficiently formulated as to help display vocabulary in sentences; this made it close to some pidgins.
Interest of others
The purpose was not to launch an IAL called Bahasan, and no attempts were made to invoke others to use it. Some persons on the Internet were however sufficiently interested as to request data for learning it as a language, and in two cases, data for teaching it to newborn babies as their first language. Several IAL projects seem to have picked up bit and pieces of Bahasan words. Its primary use has been to help the author and others to design a language (IAL) called Acadon, not yet published.
