Gilo
From Langmaker
| Conlang | Gilo |
| Author | Alan Giles |
| Year Began | 1997 |
| Language Type | international auxiliary language |
| Lexicon Size | 4500 |
| Etymologies | Yes |
| Grammar | Yes |
| Sample Texts | Yes |
| Primer | Yes |
Gilo is an international language and was created by Alan Giles. It has been used for a translation of the Babel Text. It is written with a unique script.
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Language sources
Esperanto and Glosa.
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Design principles
- All words to be categorized by meaning.
- Categorization system based on Roget's Thesaurus.
- Words to be based on those with maximum international usage.
- Vocabulary based on English words as a first choice.
- Root words (those used to form compound words) to be as short as possible. Multi-syllable English words used as root words are reduced to main syllable.
- Most frequently used words (Core Words) to be as short as possible. Core Words are generally one, two or three letter Root Words.
- Sentence word order to be the same as the most commonly used languages: Subject, Verb, Object (SVO) word order chosen as in English, Chinese, etc.
- Sentence word order to be 'logical' with regard to revelation of meaning as soon as possible.
- Nouns and Verbs to precede modifiers (adjectives and adverbs).
- Verbs to be identifiable by inflected tense endings Verbs end in -az, oz, ez, uz, iz.
- Adjectives and adverbs to be identifiable by inflected endings. Adjectives and adverbs end in -a.
- Questions to be identified at the beginning of the sentence: Leading question word k, acting as leading question mark (?).
- Maximum flexibility of word use. Affixes can be added to all root words so they can be used as nouns, verbs or modifiers.
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