1. 20 letters, some of which also serve as numerals 

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There are seven parts of speech in Adso

1. NOUN

Nouns end in -no.
fi "fire-"   -->   fino "fire"
sa "know-"   -->   sano "knowledge, information"
mo "move-"   -->   mono "motion, movement"

Adso nouns have no number, but the plural can be optionally expressed with the root ka "add-":

• finoka "fires",
• monoka "motions".

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The 60 roots and letter-numerals combine to form an unlimited number of words:

mo "move-" + de "from"   -->   modevi "go, leave"

ri "take-" + sa "know-"  -->   risavi "learn"

na "start-" + ma "male-"  -->   namano "father"

ru "rule-" + so "structure-"  -->   rusono "law"

ba "that-" + lo "place-"  -->   baloce "there"

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1. The subject precedes the verb in affirmative and negative sentences.

• Jack tefavi zai Washington   "Jack works in Washington"
• Jack noi tefavi zai Pyonyang   "Jack doesn't work in Pyonyang"
• Fino devi navi   "The fire started"
• Mano noi sivi   "The man is not speaking"

2. The subject follows the verb in interrogative sentences.

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I love you

Mi biralevi nino

• mi “I”                             = i-
• biralevi “love”            = big-/good-/feel-/-vi

• nino “you-singular”     = you-/-no

Live and learn!

Lotevi kai risavi!

• lotevi “live”                 = place-/time-/-vi
• kai “and”                    = add-/-i

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense.

kopemano kai kopefeno dursley, dei nuno en, privet drive, zavi garebidole zai ( Read more... )

JULES: Okay now, tell me again about the hash bars?

JULES: rai setece, sivi bance mino zai filipino nedercale?

• rai “OK”                        = good-/-i
• setece “now”               = this-/time-/-ce
• sivi “tell”                      = speak-/-vi
• bance “again”               = two-/-ce

• mino “me”                    = i-/-no

A language like Adso, based on a very small amount of key roots, can be developed into a universally intelligible sign language.

This kind of language could work like Arabic numerals or chemical formulas, which are universally intelligible, despite being pronounced in thousands of different ways.

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Adso is a new international language developed by Alexandr Adlov.

The basic idea behind Adso can be formulated as "Esperanto meets toki pona": very simple part-of-speech-based grammar + self-explaining vocabulary.

A language like Adso, based on a very small amount of key roots, can be developed into a universally intelligible sign language (" ( Read more... )