Frater

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Conlang	Frater
Author	Pham Xuan Thai
Year Began	1957
Language Type	international auxiliary language
Lexicon Size	N/A
Etymologies	No
Grammar	No
Sample Texts	No
Primer	No

Frater is an international auxiliary language. It was designed by Pham Xuan Thai in 1957.

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Uniqueness

Frater is a Euroclone from Asia, with a Classical (Greek and Latin) vocabulary, but with the roots somewhat modified to better suit the palate of Chinese, Japanese and other Asian-language speakers. To make it easier for Asian speakers, the language has only five vowels and thirteen consonants (b-d-f-g-j-k-l-m-n-p-r-s-t) but permits more consonant clusters than might be expected given Chinese and Japanese phonotactics.

Pham Xuan Thai writes:

With the hope of contributing a modest part in the construction of a satisfactory international language advocated by peace-loving people, I have much pleasure in publishing my world auxiliary project, named Lingua Sistemfrater ("Brotherhood Language") or merely Frater.

Frater based on Latin and Greek roots of international currency is designed with due regard to needs of the Chinese, Japanese and other non-Aryan speech-communities.

Frater is usable as an efficient instrument of communication in everyday life and technical discussion. It is easy to learn whatever the mother tongue of the beginner may be. The memory of the beginner has something to bite on thanks to the mnemonic method used in the Frater lexicon.

To learn, to read, to write and to speak it fluently, it would take an educated man three months and a plain man six months.

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Sample texts

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Sistemindi

Kones na, mi es ili, na es senti per donmaga e rigidauto, Sefal maga ot geo tuta, filo ot stofbio tuta, ili gain a pasi.

O antrop arme-forse, oto re logo surantrop ot mi, na logo futur ili a oto alegro ot ni, kon desir pro beni ni.

Mi don Lega ot kones a ilis, ne es temtuta sub Lega, ador mi kon aktofilo, ilis aribe per dis a mi.

Hinduism

Knowing that I am he whom sacrifice and austerity touch, the great lord of all worlds, the friend of all born beings, he wins to peace.

Again, O strong-armed one, hearken to my sublime tale, which in desire for thy weal I will recite to thy delighted ear.

On these, who are ever under the Rule, worshipping me with love, I bestow the Rule of understanding, whereby they come to me.

- Bhagavad-Gita

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Sistemsinto

Benkia antrop prepara pro mis uni dom pur, e don na stof rare ot geo, benkia ilis pende stofdon ot sep stof balormaga, e deman kon kardi berita a mis in sentimulti jur, promulti mis aksepne futur pro paso in dom ot andro moralne e abaris. Sed mis bisit futur sekur dom ot ilis, omo in sentimorta abenne deman, si aktoben-filo es temtuta na. Reson es, mis fakto aktoben-filo domador ot mis.

Antrop tuta oto! Si nis desir obten asista ot Dio, eteks lebanauto.

Kapila ot lebanauto gardi eks omo nis ot Diomulti, omo nefelo maga.

Antrop tuta oto! Dio ben eureka forse e suporta ot ilis in piet.

Ilis filo ne prona stofdon ot ilis, na esersis festi moros.

Shinto

Even though men prepare for us a pure abode and offer there the rare things of the land, though they hang up offerings of the seven precious things, and with anxious hearts pray to us for hundreds of days, yet will we refuse to enter the house of the depraved and miserly. But we will surely visit the dwellings even of those in deep mourning without an invitation, if loving-kindness is there always. The reason is that we make loving-kindness our shintai.

Hear all men! If you desire to obtain help from the Gods, put away pride. Even a hair of pride shuts you off from the Gods as it were by a great cloud.

Hear all men! The good Kami find their strength and their support in piety. Therefore they love not the offerings of those who practise tedious ceremonies.

- Oracles of the Gods of Kasuga

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