Lingwa de Planeta

From Langmaker

Conlang	Lingwa de Planeta
Author	Dmitry Ivanov, Anastasia Lysenko, Elena Ivanova, Asya Vinogradova
Year Began	2006
Language Type	international auxiliary language
Lexicon Size	2000
Etymologies	Yes
Grammar	Yes
Sample Texts	Yes
Primer	Yes

Lingwa de Planeta is an international auxiliary language created by a small group of enthusiasts from St. Petersburg, Russia.

Language sources

The main: English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Arabic, Persian, French, Italian, Novial; additional: Turkish, Ukrainian, Esperanto, Finnish, Japanese, Swedish, others.

Design principles

The most distinctive feature of LdP, in which it differs from nearly all the other planned languages, is that it imports many words and grammatical elements from non-European languages, and at the same time is highly naturalistic. Sometimes you could think that it's just a mixture of words of various languages, but in fact there is a system, of course. LdP is created as a simple grammatical scheme allowing the use of international vocabulary without serious deformations. Most words in LdP end in a vowel or y, n, m, l, s, r.

Interest of others

A group of humanistically-oriented people is studying the language. Every Saturday there is a meeting of the LdP club in St.Petersburg. A report in LdP has been made on a humanist conference: http://forhumanism.org/en/materials/SP2006LdPEnglish.html

External links

Site	Broken Link	Author	Site Languages
Lingwa de Planeta site	No	D.Ivanov	English, Russian
Introductory course	No	A.Lysenko	LdP, English, Spanish, Russian
Multilingual LdP dictionary	No	D.Ivanov	LdP, English, Russian, Spanish
The first chapters of A.S.-Exupéry's "The Little Prince"	No	D.Ivanov	LdP, French
An extract from G.Orwell's "Animal farm"	No	D.Ivanov	LdP, English