About Lingua Sistemfrater

 

LINGUA SISTEMFRATER, "Brotherhood language," was invented in 1957 by Vietnamese linguist Pham Xuan Thai. It was made to be a very easy international language. The vocabulary contains about 1000 word roots. The words have a very broad meaning; for example, the word optik means both "eye" and "see." Other words can be made by combining the word roots. Opposites are formed with -ne; for example, fasil means "easy," fasilne means "difficult." The result is that the language can be learned very quickly.

The alphabet has only 18 letters: ABDEFGIJKLMNOPRSTU. Vowels are pronounced as they are in most languages. The only consonant pronounced differently from English is the J; it sounds like the letter Z (a French J should be close enough as well).

Grammar is simple as well. Sentence order is subject, verb, object. Words that describe other words come after those words.

The original dictionary and the 12 rules of grammar can be found at the official website:

linguasistemfrater.mozello.com

Around the World in Eighty Days 37 - ultim

         XXXVII

Passepartout... soon reached the clergyman’s house, but found him not at home.
-> Pasporto aribe pas pas a dom ot delegadio, sed ili es ne a dom. 

He ran along the street as never man was seen to run before...
-> Ili kuren pas pas konser rut, je antrop kuren ne ante tem tuta. 

He... staggered back into Mr. Fogg’s room.
-> Ili katarakta pas telenetuta in samber de andro Fog. 

“My master!” gasped Passepartout— “marriage—impossible... Because to-morrow—is Sunday!”
-> Pasporto logo pas temkia respira forse: "Sefal! Gamo - es inergone - prona saftra - es Juruni!" 

“Monday,” replied Mr. Fogg.
-> Andro Fog respon pas: "Jurbi."

"We arrived twenty-four hours ahead of time; but there are only ten minutes left!”
-> "Mis aribe pas bidekakuadri ora ante tem. Sed deka minut resta!" 

In journeying eastward he had gone towards the sun, and the days therefore diminished for him...
-> Temkia turis a destrafas, Fileas Fog paso pas a sola, e jur es pas longane pro ili. 

Phileas Fogg, going eastward, saw the sun pass the meridian _eighty_ times, his friends in London only saw it pass the meridian _seventy-nine_ times.
-> Temkia paso a destrafas, ili optik pas, na sola paso in jur tuta 80 tem, temkia filo ili optik pas, na sola paso 79 tem.

Phileas Fogg, then, had won the twenty thousand pounds; but, as he had spent nearly nineteen thousand on the way, the pecuniary gain was small.
-> Prona Fileas Fog gain 20,000. Prona ili usa 19,000 in turis, gain na es pas magane. 

What had he brought backfrom this long and weary journey?
-> Ili gain kia ot turis longa e fatig dis? 

Nothing but a charming woman, who... made him the happiest of men!
-> Nul, kontenne gine bel, na fakto ili je andro bene!