The Representation of Uralic Languages in Artificial International Auxiliary Languages
Received: Feb 20, 2013; Revised: Mar 05, 2013; Accepted: Mar 12, 2013
Published Online: Jan 01, 2017
Abstract
Artificial international auxiliary languages, particularly the major ones such as Esperanto and Interlingua, have taken relatively few words or grammatical features from Uralic languages (or from other non-Indo-European languages). In this paper I will examine some auxiliary languages which have used one or more Uralic languages as sources. Among these languages are Angos, Ardano, Budinos, Eura, Kweda, Lingwa de Planeta, Neo Patwa, Uusisuom/Lapsi, and Veltparl. In general Uralic items make up only a small part of the language as a whole.